09' Could Be The Last Year For Cap...

[Mr Cowboy]

I seem to remember that before the cap, Buffalo, Minnesota, Denver, Seattle, Pittsburgh, the Bay teams, and other small market teams were faily competitive and down right good.

I don't get the notion that all of a sudden the small market teams will get bad. Even Cinincinatti had some great teams.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Cowboys
Texans
Seahawks
Bucs
Raiders?
Falcons


Would everyone agree this woudl be the 6 biggest spenders?

No. Ever heard of the Commanders?

 

[DasTex]

No. Ever heard of the Commanders?

Yeah, once or twice. Just a mistake of trying to forget about them

 

[CF74]

Why don't they just double the add on to $20 mil??

 

[iceberg]

and we take 1 step closer to pay per view football which takes 1 step closer to killing the sport due to salaries that eventually go past demand.

 

[Doomsday101]

I seem to remember that before the cap, Buffalo, Minnesota, Denver, Seattle, Pittsburgh, the Bay teams, and other small market teams were faily competitive and down right good.

I don't get the notion that all of a sudden the small market teams will get bad. Even Cinincinatti had some great teams.

True because teams were built by the draft and teams would not lose players to FA so you could build a team to last. If FA were to continue without a cap a lot of these teams would become minor league teams who bring in young talent only to lose their best player to teams who could offer much more.

 

[David276]

jerry would be gm of the year each year if this happend

 

[big dog cowboy]

jerry would be gm of the year each year if this happend

It wasn't that way pre-salary cap so why would it be afterwards?

 

[David276]

It wasn't that way pre-salary cap so why would it be afterwards?

your right thinking about it. yet he does have alot of money which = b ig contracts. team with story and history. big market.


bring jimmy back '09:starspin

 

[TellerMorrow34]

*Shrugs* I'm good either way.

No cap would mean teams staying together longer (Since they'd move the FA ability from 4 years to 6 giving teams 2 more years with a player) but at the same time you'd have to spend a **** ton of money when guys did become FA's. Even more than you've got to spend now, cause there would be no number that players had to help magically stay under.

 

[windward]

If you do away with the cap then FA has to go as well. The cap only came about because of FA. Owners were willing to give into the players with FA but imposed the cap to keep the league overall competitive.

except that doing away with FA will be thrown out by the courts and /or threaten the league's antitrust exemption.

 

[windward]

In an uncapped league, the big spenders would be imo

Patriots
Ravens
Texans
Raiders
Cowboys
Commanders
Seattle
Tampa Bay
maybe Atlanta

 

[Doomsday101]

except that doing away with FA will be thrown out by the courts and /or threaten the league's antitrust exemption.

If that is the case then I think the cap will remain. The league will need 2/3 majority to eliminate the cap and I don't see the owners of the smaller markets doing that.

 

[PullMyFinger]

If thats the case I'd streak through my neighborhood. How joyous that would be.

 

[theogt]

The owners think it's infeasible to give up more than 60% of revenues, so this means that they'll allow the league to change to an environment where even more than 60% of the revenues goes to the players?

Doubtful.

 

[Beast_from_East]

* The NFL averted a labor war 2 years ago when outgoing commissioner Paul Tagliabue strong-armed the owners into agreeing to a collective-bargaining- agreement extension that gave the players 60 percent of the league's pot of gold. The owners can opt out of the deal in November, which seems almost a certainty right now. If that happens, 2009 would be the last capped year of the current agreement. There would be no salary cap in 2010, but the service requirement for free agency would jump from 4 to 6 years. "I think it's really common knowledge our last labor agreement is not our smartest move," Broncos owner Pat Bowlen told Jeff Legwold, of the Rocky Mountain News. "And I'm not talking about [just] the Denver Broncos. I'm talking about the [whole] league. We can't live with this deal."

http://www.philly.com/dailynews


The small market teams will go back suck'n! The powerhouse's will be the Cowboys, Skins, GB and Pats to name a few.

Dallas would become a freaking BEAST!!!

No salary cap + $1 billion new stadium = Probowlers at every position.

 

[Future]

The Small Markets teams like Buffalo would complain about big spenders like Us and the Commanders, there's no way there won't be a cap.

Um, didn't Buffalo go to 4 straight Super Bowls with no cap?

 

[IronCowboy]

No Cap will be the worst thing that can happen in the league. I want to win a title fair and square. I dont want any of this Yankee/Red Sox bull**** where teams in the AL like the Blue Jays, Mariners, Indians, Orioles, Royals, Angels etc, can compete with a 150+ million dollar payroll.

 

[kmp77]

There needs to be a system where you're DRAFTED players are uncapped. Free agents etc are capped. That way you can't buy a team, but you can help your team. And you're rewarded for good drafts and not penalized if too many of your drafted players turn out to be great players and you cant sign them all when they're deals are up.

 

[Yeagermeister]

It will never happen but the nfl needs a rookie cap like the NBA.