Question To All About Contracts And Money

[Hoofbite]

I've some posts shooting down the idea of signing a player because "that player would want too much", "isn't worth that much", or whatever other money related issue is thrown out there.

My question, why does anyone care? If it works well with the cap, who cares how much Jerry is spending?

Its not like Jerry has been getting fleeced in recent contracts.

Knock him all you want for his meddling ways but he and the guys who work on the salaries have the cap pretty well figured out.

He isn't going to hamstring the team with a contract that puts the teams cap status in limbo.

So why do people care? If the contract is cap friendly does it matter how much any deal is supposedly worth?

I don't think so.

 

[dadymat]

I think after signing Ware, a few more low range FA and signing draft picks....that might be about all the cap wiggle room we will have..

 

[Yeagermeister]

It matters when you give big money to an older player and when he gets released he eats up 9 million of the cap that could be used to sign another player.

 

[SkinsFan28]

It matters when you give big money to an older player and when he gets released he eats up 9 million of the cap that could be used to sign another player.

But here is the thing and the Skins really can testify to this:
We are not in the early days of the cap when it caught several teams (SF and Dallas the worst I think) by surprise.

Owners like JJ and Snyder really have figured out how to manage the CAP effectively so that in any one year, you only have a little bit of dead cap space. If you don't believe me, look at (and mock I know) my Skins. Last year when our two DE's went down on the first day of training camp, and we were supposedly maxed out on the CAP, we signed JT to his full value of the contract. This year we were the 4th "tightest" against the cap, and we signed AH to a monster deal, plus two other midrange contracts, a low range punter and still will sign 1 or two more plus draft picks. New England supposedly only had 3Million left in CAP room, and now they have 17Mill. The CAP does not really stop teams who want to circumvent it, it just looks like it does.
(please note I am not defending any of these moves in this thread just saying you can manage the cap)

 

[Hoofbite]

It matters when you give big money to an older player and when he gets released he eats up 9 million of the cap that could be used to sign another player.

True.

But on the flip side, the TO move is "suppoesed" to make things better.

Either way TO would have made that money.

If it helps the team, losing the extra few hundred thousand is no big deal.

I'd typically agree about guaranteeing big money to older guys but in TOs case he was released for other reasons than not doing his job.