How Cowboys compare in spending last 4 years

[LatinMind]

Just smoke and mirrors.

Has any team ever been penalized for being under/over the cap?

this has nothing to do with yearly over under cap penalty. this is the new rule in the in the cba with actual cash spent. not prorrated type stuff pver 5 yrs. Teams have to spend 89% of that bottom floor or risk losing draft picks. And all teams are in the good. That was the purpose of the tweet.

Draft pick penalties and writing a big check to every player that was on the team in those 4 yrs are the penalties.

 

[drawandstrike]

For those interested in how the salary cap looks for each team right now, and how much cap space each team has left, here's a handy chart.

http://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/

check the 2017 #'s. We are definitely going to have to do something next season. We'd be $10 million over the cap. Restructuring contracts and cutting a few guys loose will fix most of that, though.

 

[Maxmadden]

this has nothing to do with yearly over under cap penalty. this is the new rule in the in the cba with actual cash spent. not prorrated type stuff pver 5 yrs. Teams have to spend 89% of that bottom floor or risk losing draft picks. And all teams are in the good. That was the purpose of the tweet.

Draft pick penalties and writing a big check to every player that was on the team in those 4 yrs are the penalties.

So has any team ever been penalized for not doing it?

Is the penalty, perhaps worth it in the long run?

I understand that overspending will have a negative affect at some point. I am just curious and asking if there are just as many loopholes in this aspect of the CBA?.

 

[T-RO]

Some of you guys need to understand cash spent and cap space used are not the same thing.

Agreed.

There are three different reasons why a team might have a low value:
-Dead salary cap obligations
-Approach to amortizing, deferring signing bonuses
-Spending the lower end of the team obligation

Sorting it out is way too much trouble. There is nothing to learn here unless someone wants to do a ton more digging and analyzing.

If you try to make conclusions from these numbers you will likely make wrong ones.

 

[T-RO]

For those interested in how the salary cap looks for each team right now, and how much cap space each team has left, here's a handy chart.

http://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/

check the 2017 #'s. We are definitely going to have to do something next season. We'd be $10 million over the cap. Restructuring contracts and cutting a few guys loose will fix most of that, though.

thanks bro, for posting that.

The thing that can be very misleading when looking at such data is that some teams might have 32 players under contract for an upcoming year...including their priciest players...while another team might only have 39 guys under contract.

We will have work to do. Trading/Releasing Romo is a start.

 

[AzorAhai]

You don't remember just a few years ago when Dallas and Washington got hit with big penalties?

That's not the same thing. What is above is the cash teams have spent. When a player signs an extension, they give a signing bonus. Some of these are very large. They don't go directly onto the cap. When a team restructures a contract (converting salary to signing bonus) it doesn't go onto the cap. It gets divided up into the remaining years and raises cap hits across those years.

What you are seeing is the amount of cash money spent in thoe years which is not capped. A team could sign a player to a 10 year 150 million dollar deal with 100 million in signing bonus. That money doesn't all go on the cap. Yet they just wrote a check for 100 million dollars. THAT is what the picture is showing. Not cap space spent which dallas is always right up against.

 

[NextGenBoys]

Only 7 teams have spent more.

Well done Jerry and Stephen

 

[Alexander]

You don't remember just a few years ago when Dallas and Washington got hit with big penalties?

That was a baseless witch hunt.

 

[drawandstrike]

That was a baseless witch hunt.

We violated this 'unwritten rule' and Mara screamed at Goodell until he did something. Still pisses me off.

 

[unionjack8]

pretty sure this shows CASH spent, not a hard cap number.

just gotta hit the floor over a rolling 4 or 5 year period I think

 

[Nightman]

OAK is the only team under the 89% rule but only by 2m.........they have until March to spend it or the penalty will be.................splitting the 2m amongst players on the roster....a pretty toothless rule

DAL should never be in the lowest %tile when it comes to cash spending.......that is one advantage we have they we don't use enough........BAL and GB run their franchises a certain way because their revenues pale in comparison to ours

 

[Nightman]

Wait. I was told that we were a top spender.

We aren't but we should be....we have the cash revenues every year that other teams don't

 

[Doomsday]

The Cowboys and Commanders being fined in 2012 had an impact on this. Especially the Skins

 

[MRV52]

There's only like 4 teams that have spent less than us. And look at the Eagles....LOL!

 

[Bluefin]

check the 2017 #'s. We are definitely going to have to do something next season. We'd be $10 million over the cap. Restructuring contracts and cutting a few guys loose will fix most of that, though.

The 2017 salary cap shouldn't be an issue, there are always players who will have their large base salaries converted into signing bonus to low their cap numbers and a few who will take pay cuts or get released.

Travis Frederick has a guaranteed $14.221M base salary next year. Dallas can create $10.4M in cap room with a restructure.

Tyron Smith, Tyrone Crawford and Sean Lee can all do the same thing.

So can Dez Bryant, or he might even get an extension.

Jason Witten may get an extension that will lower his cap hit next season.

Tony Romo's number will decrease if he is traded/released.

There are a handful of other moves for smaller savings that may also occur.

 

[conner01]

Just smoke and mirrors.

Has any team ever been penalized for being under/over the cap?

You can't be over the cap

 

[LatinMind]

So has any team ever been penalized for not doing it?

Is the penalty, perhaps worth it in the long run?

I understand that overspending will have a negative affect at some point. I am just curious and asking if there are just as many loopholes in this aspect of the CBA?.

2017 will be the first yr teams will have to be in compliance. They barely put it in the cba this last time around

 

[dfense]

What point are you trying to make?

Looking at future obligations is meaningful. Looking at dead cap space is meaningful. What are we supposed to glean from this?

Maybe the fact that you can't "buy" a team?

 

[Ashwynn]

Man, look at cleveland. Only 7 mil less than the boys and they suck royally. What did they spend money on? certainly not good players. How do they have any fans at all?

 

[RandyOh]

For those interested in how the salary cap looks for each team right now, and how much cap space each team has left, here's a handy chart.

http://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/

check the 2017 #'s. We are definitely going to have to do something next season. We'd be $10 million over the cap. Restructuring contracts and cutting a few guys loose will fix most of that, though.

Getting Romo off the books takes care of most of it. A handful of releases of fringe NFL players like Vince Mayle take care of the rest. Restructures will give us the cap space to keep players and sign a decent free agent or 2.