Source: NFL Salary Cap could be $185 million this season

atlantacowboy · Feb 4, 2021

ondaedg said:
When the facts don't meet your agenda you blow your lid. Lol. He had 3 4QCs and 5 GWDs in 2018 and he sucked? And the Amari thing is lame. Name one QB in this year's superbowl who doesn't have multiple pro bowl receivers to throw to. I will give you a hint they both have more weapons than Dak does. And one of them has multiple all-pros.

Shouldn't let this get personal.

You think thats blowing my lid? lol

Oh so Dak needs more weapons? lol You could put Dak on KC or Tampa and neither would make the playoffs. He's not even in the same area code as Mahomes and Brady. 9-11 in his last 20 games. Argue with that.

JJHLH1 · Feb 4, 2021

atlantacowboy said:
You could put Dak on KC or Tampa and neither would make the playoffs. He's not even in the same area code as Mahomes and Brady.

Dak isn’t Brady or Mahomes but he would almost certainly be in the playoffs if he was on KC or Tampa, especially with the playoff expansion to seven teams per conference.

Heck, Dak made the playoffs twice under Garrett despite having to compete with a Super Bowl winner in Philly during that time, and that was back when only six teams per conference made it.

robertfchew · Feb 4, 2021

buybuydandavis said:
40mil on a 185mil cap next year. QB salaries are a bubble. I hope we aren't one of the last teams to pay out a fat QB contract before that bubble bursts. But we probably are.

I commented this the other day. This is just like when the 1st round rookie contracts became unsustainable and the changed the rules. Just say no to 40m. Dude can make 500 million and be an nfl legend if he pulls off a sb in Dallas after the drought we've had. He doesn't care though he just wants money.

buybuydandavis · Feb 4, 2021

atlantacowboy said:
People are so cock sure we can't win without Dak...........yet we haven't won with him either. 9-11 in his last 20 starts. Thats what we are buying.

We'd be trying to win while devoting *more* money to Dak.

"We can't win without X" is the tell of someone shutting their minds to the other side of the pancake. Everything is about trade offs in a capped league. Sure, we'd rather keep Dak, and we'd rather keep the 40mil too.

Can we win while putting 40mil cap into Dak? We couldn't win when Dak cost 2mil. Maybe we just kinda suck and need to start getting more value for our cap dollars. Long term, that's how you build a winner.

FuzzyLumpkins · Feb 4, 2021

Rockport said:
Come on guys. Wake up. This is all speculation until the NFL comes out and says the salary cap as fact. You guys will believe anything you read or hear on the internet. You embarrass yourselfs. Now this may turn out to be true but to act like it’s fact is embarrassing yourselves.

Why does it have to be that extreme? It's new information about how the negotiations are tending.

We can exclude the notion that the cap was going to be at or lower than $175m. Similarly it doesn't appear to be going above the status quo.

We cannot make specific observations from that but we can glean that we will be able to franchise Dak without having to cut players. Also we can fathom a lot of teams are going to have to make cuts.

We will be in a good position.

JBond · Feb 4, 2021

Rockport said:
Come on guys. Wake up. This is all speculation until the NFL comes out and says the salary cap as fact. You guys will believe anything you read or hear on the internet. You embarrass yourselfs. Now this may turn out to be true but to act like it’s fact is embarrassing yourselves.

I agree. All the speculation garbage is just that. The NFL is smarter than that. They will not eat their own. Not good business. I do expect additional revenue streams will be created and owners will need to adjust to them regarding cash flow.

DuncanIso · Feb 5, 2021

America's Cowboy said:
This tells me that Dak will be franchise tagged once again, earning him a $37.7 one year salary for 2021. This will give the Cowboys a chance to keep Dak once again as their starting QB while enabling the team to see how well Dak's injured lower leg has healed and holds up throughout 2021. If Dak's leg heals and holds up well, expect a big contract extension at the end of the 2021 season when the salary cap is expected to exponentially expand starting in 2022. If Dak's leg starts giving him problems and has a setback, 2021 might be the last year Dak plays in Dallas due to injury.

you are probably right about this.

they don’t have a deal yet....which tells me Jerry is stalling.

CowboyRoy · Feb 5, 2021

ESisback said:
What if they restructure some contracts and cut a couple?

This is the year, Cowboys needs to pounce. Some great veterans will be cut and available and the market will be drowned out. Sign Dak long term so the cap hit this year is lower, and sign a few of these guys for the defense.

CowboyRoy · Feb 5, 2021

America's Cowboy said:
This tells me that Dak will be franchise tagged once again, earning him a $37.7 one year salary for 2021. This will give the Cowboys a chance to keep Dak once again as their starting QB while enabling the team to see how well Dak's injured lower leg has healed and holds up throughout 2021. If Dak's leg heals and holds up well, expect a big contract extension at the end of the 2021 season when the salary cap is expected to exponentially expand starting in 2022. If Dak's leg starts giving him problems and has a setback, 2021 might be the last year Dak plays in Dallas due to injury.

It says the opposite actually. The limited cap space signals that no way can they franchise him again. They have to sign him long term and limit his cap hit in 2021.

DuncanIso · Feb 5, 2021

CowboyRoy said:
It says the opposite actually. The limited cap space signals that no way can they franchise him again. They have to sign him long term and limit his cap hit in 2021.

except Dak doesn’t like the deal Jerry is offering long term.

The tag is Jerry’s leverage over Dak.

if Dak doesn’t sign the tag, he doesn’t play or get paid.

DCCowboys11 · Feb 5, 2021

ChuckA1 said:
Dak will need help from FA and a great draft, or the Cowboys go nowhere. This team, even with Dak at 100% needs support players. The defense is currently miserable.

This is exactly why I’m nervous about them giving Dak a HUGE contract. QBs who make that type of money should be able to elevate an average team to contender status. Not Dak. It seems like he has to have a loaded team around him at every position to win. That won’t work.

ABQCOWBOY · Feb 5, 2021

Sydla said:
Even without the SB, they have a pretty good idea of what the revenues will look like. What they get paid in TV revenues for the SB is pretty much fixed. They also know the crowd will be limited so they can guesstimate what they will bring in that weekend in terms of other revenues.

I suspect the league office has a pretty good idea of what the cap will be in 2021. Now whether that $185 million is a solid number actually leaked by someone in the know, I have no idea.

No, not really. In years past, I would say that this is probably true but not this year. There have been reports that several major brands have pulled out of the Super Bowl this year. Pepsi, Coke and Budweiser, to name a few. When's the last time you watched a Super Bowl with no commercials from at least one of those sponsers?

Rockport · Feb 5, 2021

atlantacowboy said:
You think thats blowing my lid? lol

Oh so Dak needs more weapons? lol You could put Dak on KC or Tampa and neither would make the playoffs. He's not even in the same area code as Mahomes and Brady. 9-11 in his last 20 games. Argue with that.

The ignorance is strong with these Dak haters.

JW82 · Feb 5, 2021

They should leave the cap alone, just lower the floor for a season for the teams that can't hit their numbers.

CowboyRoy · Feb 5, 2021

DuncanIso said:
except Dak doesn’t like the deal Jerry is offering long term.

The tag is Jerry’s leverage over Dak.

if Dak doesn’t sign the tag, he doesn’t play or get paid.

I dont think it comes down to the tag. Its Jerry's leverage, but its not much leverage. They were right there on the amount, just the number of years was the issue. Jerry should cave to 4 years.

If Dak is tagged, it wont give us the cap flexibility we need. And also if Dak plays on the franchise tag, he gets 37 million, then becomes unrestricted with no tag as an option. He would have all the leverage there. For these two reasons I see little leverage at all that Jerry has.

CowboyRoy · Feb 5, 2021

DCCowboys11 said:
This is exactly why I’m nervous about them giving Dak a HUGE contract. QBs who make that type of money should be able to elevate an average team to contender status. Not Dak. It seems like he has to have a loaded team around him at every position to win. That won’t work.

This is just poor analysis to be honest. Its not realistic. Dak cant elevate a defense. And the defense was terrible. NOt like it was just average. It was historical bad for a while. The offense was averaging 37 points a game before he got injured. What more are you going to ask for from your QB? He was passing for 500 yards and 4 TD's and they were still losing. Its not like he was throwing lots of picks or losing the game at the end.

And those 4 games there Oline was in bad shape and Zeke was actually hurting the team with his fumbles. So Dak was able to elevate the offense with a bad Oline and bad RB play, but he cant play defense.

And comments like "he needs a loaded team around him at every position" is something a mindless troll would say.

DCCowboys11 · Feb 5, 2021

CowboyRoy said:
This is just poor analysis to be honest. Its not realistic. Dak cant elevate a defense. And the defense was terrible. NOt like it was just average. It was historical bad for a while. The offense was averaging 37 points a game before he got injured. What more are you going to ask for from your QB? He was passing for 500 yards and 4 TD's and they were still losing. Its not like he was throwing lots of picks or losing the game at the end.

And those 4 games there Oline was in bad shape and Zeke was actually hurting the team with his fumbles. So Dak was able to elevate the offense with a bad Oline and bad RB play, but he cant play defense.

And comments like "he needs a loaded team around him at every position" is something a mindless troll would say.

No “mindless trolls” here. Pretty childish and immature to resort to name calling don’t you think?? Just my opinion. Obviously you’re a HUGE Dak Lover and that’s fine. Easy to throw for 500 yards against trash defenses. You do make some good points though about the defense. It was historically bad no doubt. If it was top 15 this team is probably deep in the playoffs. Still doesn’t make me think DAK is worth 38 million. He’s just not that good against good defenses or even average defenses.

CowboyRoy · Feb 5, 2021

DCCowboys11 said:
No “mindless trolls” here. Pretty childish and immature to resort to name calling don’t you think?? Just my opinion. Obviously you’re a HUGE Dak Lover and that’s fine. Easy to throw for 500 yards against trash defenses. You do make some good points though about the defense. It was historically bad no doubt. If it was top 15 this team is probably deep in the playoffs. Still doesn’t make me think DAK is worth 38 million. He’s just not that good against good defenses or even average defenses.

So what would you be willing to pay Dak?

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