The point is to have extra cap space the next year. It might be more useful than spending it on some bum for 1 year.
Ok i'm glad you responded this way because its going over my head. So if I sign a "bum" to a 1 year deal this year....why is that relevant to next year's salary cap? I'm not on the hook for him since he's only on a one year deal....what am I missing?
Teams often carry over unused cap space to the next season. By not spending the $10 million this year, they can add it to their cap space for the following year, providing more flexibility for future signings, extensions, and managing dead cap hits.
If the cap is 200 million and you carry over 10M, your cap is now 210 million. J12B explained it pretty well.
Right now the Cowboys are $12.4 million under the cap (according to overthecap). If they do not spend any of it, they would have all $12.4 million to spend next year in addition to the cap.
Yeah you explained well. I didn't know you increased your actual salary cap room....
There were a few years there when the Browns had over 50M in space because the team was so bad. But I don't know how much they carried over. I think there is also a salary floor you can't go below, but I don't know what that is. But theoretically you can carry over a lot and splurge for one year. Then just keep pushing money forward.
Yeah 50 million seems excessive I thought you get fined for not spending a certain amount of the cap? I'd imagine the Cowboys are cutting it close with what the floor is.
Ok thanks. I also had questions about this. I appreciate the OP and the answers.
The Cowboys are nowhere near the floor. They had practically maxed out the cap before getting Gallup money.
Per the CBA, teams must send 85% of the salary cap over a running 4 year period on player compensation.
*89%
Your paychecks equal to 50k a month buddy, but you have that mortgage to pay, school loans, bills etc. Do you want to spend all your money in that month, or is it best to save some for next month so you're not struggling??
You're a smart person to decipher through all the ummm uhhh uhhhh ummm ummm uhhhhhhhh lol
Yes. And the NFL as a whole has to spend 95% of the cap over that time frame. If a team doesn't do it, they have to pay the players they had over those 4 years. But I don't believe this has ever been enforced.
Probably hasn't been enforced because it's never needed to be enforced.
The disconnect was when people keep saying "carry over" I thought there was a set salary cap. I didn't know some teams can have a different salary cap then others.
