2008 salary cap adjustments for all 32 teams

[AdamJT13]

Here are the cap adjustments for each team. A positive number is the amount added to that team's salary cap limit (more money that they can spend). A negative amount is how much a team's cap limit was lowered (less money they can spend).

Note: This is NOT how much cap room these teams have. It's just how much their cap limit has been adjusted.

[SIZE="3"]Minnesota	$18,432,577	 
Philadelphia	$14,087,449	 
Tampa Bay	$13,306,634	 
Buffalo		$12,713,009	 
Cleveland	$12,633,503	 
Jacksonville	$11,920,898	 
Kansas City	$11,658,373	 
Green Bay	$9,430,581	 
Carolina	$8,926,802	 
New Orleans	$8,017,003	 
Seattle		$7,386,108	 
Indianapolis	$6,501,115	 
Tennessee	$5,491,147	 
N.Y. Jets	$5,052,789	 
Oakland		$4,340,722	 
Miami		$3,944,997	 
New England	$2,596,078	 
Baltimore	$2,532,265	 
San Francisco	$2,310,787	 
Washington	$1,821,260	 
[B]Dallas		$998,443	 [/B]
Chicago		$726,231	 
Denver		$660,000	 
St. Louis	$632,320	 
Arizona		$0	 
Cincinnati	$0	 
Atlanta 	minus-$350,574
San Diego 	minus-$597,647
Pittsburgh 	minus-$1,910,774
Houston 	minus-$2,207,869
N.Y. Giants	minus-$3,096,512
Detroit		minus-$5,348,065[/SIZE]

And here is each team's cap limit --

Note: This is NOT how much of the cap these teams have spent. It's how much they CAN spend.

[SIZE="3"]Minnesota	$135,161,577	 
Philadelphia	$130,816,449	 
Tampa Bay	$130,035,634	 
Buffalo		$129,442,009	 
Cleveland	$129,362,503	 
Jacksonville	$128,649,898	 
Kansas City	$128,387,373	 
Green Bay	$126,159,581	 
Carolina	$125,655,802	 
New Orleans	$124,746,003	 
Seattle		$124,115,108	 
Indianapolis	$123,230,115	 
Tennessee	$122,220,147	 
N.Y. Jets	$121,781,789	 
Oakland		$121,069,722	 
Miami		$120,673,997	 
New England	$119,325,078	 
Baltimore	$119,261,265	 
San Francisco	$119,039,787	 
Washington	$118,550,260	 
[B]Dallas		$117,727,443[/B]	 
Chicago		$117,455,231	 
Denver		$117,389,000	 
St. Louis	$117,361,320	 
Arizona		$116,729,000	 
Cincinnati	$116,729,000	 
Atlanta		$116,378,426	 
San Diego	$116,131,353	 
Pittsburgh	$114,818,226	 
Houston		$114,521,131	 
N.Y. Giants	$113,632,488	 
Detroit		$111,380,935	 
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Our cap adjustment came in about $500,000 lower than I expected, but the cap was set $729,000 higher than the preliminary figure, so we came out ahead overall, I guess.

 

[Q_the_man]

Thank you

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Eagles are so cheap, they won't spend to the regular cap, let alone their adjusted cap

 

[Little Jr]

Eagles are so cheap, they won't spend to the regular cap, let alone their adjusted cap

Yet they're in the race just about every year. They just get more out of there draft picks than we do.

 

[dogberry]

Is there a league minimum on spending or does each team have a unique minimum?

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Yet they're in the race just about every year. They just get more out of there draft picks than we do.

they haven't been in the race 2 of the last 3 years

 

[AdamJT13]

Is there a league minimum on spending or does each team have a unique minimum?

The minimum for each team this season is 86.4 percent of the cap. I'm pretty sure that percentage applies to each team's adjusted cap, but I'm not 100 percent positive. (If it doesn't, there'd be a problem if a team ever carried over a huge amount of NLTBE charges, because their minimum could end up higher than their maximum. So I'm pretty sure it does.)

 

[dogberry]

Thank you

 

[jterrell]

Yet they're in the race just about every year. They just get more out of there draft picks than we do.

You are about 3 years late there.

Their drafts have nose-dived.

 

[Little Jr]

they haven't been in the race 2 of the last 3 years

Them 2 years McNabb went down. Well last year he didnt go down but was coming off a knee injury. The one they did he still went down but the had a capable back up come in and take them to the playoffs. They won a playoff game we did not. THe 2 years you are refering to only one of them we were in the hunt. Go back over the last 8 years. Hate them or not they have done a better job with there draft picks than we have and still have a lot of caproom every year.

 

[IronCowboy]

they haven't been in the race 2 of the last 3 years

But they were in the Superbowl and 4 NFCCG, where have we been the last 10 years?

 

[superpunk]

What sort of things account for these adjustments? Is it the structure of bonuses that teams like Philly and Minnesota hand out?

 

[Little Jr]

You are about 3 years late there.

Their drafts have nose-dived.

Well if you just talking the past 3 year then they've won more playoff games than we have. Over the past 8-9 years they have done a lot better job with there draft picks than we have. They have won the East more than any other team in the east in that time. They always have a crap load of cap room. I hate them just as much as anyone but you have to give them credit.

 

[Nightman]

Is the $116M cap number final for 2008 or can it still go up once the final revenue numbers come in? I heard someone report that the number could end up closer to $123M.

 

[AdamJT13]

What sort of things account for these adjustments? Is it the structure of bonuses that teams like Philly and Minnesota hand out?

Anything previously paid but not yet charged against the cap is removed from the 2008 cap. Anything previously charged against the cap but never paid is added to the 2008 cap. The net result is that team's adjustment. Most of it comes from incentives -- either NLTBEs that were earned or LTBEs that were not earned. Some of it involves money that was repaid by players to the team, or even grievances that were settled.

Also, keep in mind that the 2007 cap is maxed out before any charges are pushed into 2008.