Regarding Salary Cap

[Cwby41]

When they renegotiate the new CBA why can't they have no salary cap for players drafted by a team or UDFA that teams develop. Teams wouldn't have to deal with losing home grown talent, the fans who are what makes this all work don't have to see their favorite players leave and teams are not punished for drafting well and developing their own. Have a hard cap for teams when they just want to go out and buy a championship. If a player wants to go and play somewhere else at the end of his contract he doesn't have to resign. We will not have all the BS we have now, Players could retire with team they started with like years ago. What are your thoughts on this? What are the reasons this won't work? Thanks

 

[big dog cowboy]

They (owners or players) can try to put whatever they want into a new CBA deal.

Bottom line is everything is negotiable and has to agree upon.

 

[Jake]

I'd favor a "Bird exception" like the NBA, where you can exceed the cap to pay one of your home grown guys.

But the early signs suggest 2021 is more likely to produce a lockout than any cap flexibility.

 

[HungryLion]

I'd favor a "Bird exception" like the NBA, where you can exceed the cap to pay one of your home grown guys.

But the early signs suggest 2021 is more likely to produce a lockout than any cap flexibility.

Yeah I would like a similar system to the NBA.

It would be nice if resigning your own players was like 10% cheaper or some number against the cap.

Idk if players would go for something like that or not though.

 

[Cwby41]

I dont really follow other sports and how there cap works if they have one. But I like that idea as long as it could be a few more players not counting toward the cap as their are that many more players in football than basketball. It just seems to create so much animosity between players, Front office and fans.Every team has pretty much seen their Key guys go finish their careers in another city usually a rival. I actually miss the old days when guys wernt moving all over.

 

[Cowboys22]

The owners don’t want the ability to spend more than a certain percentage of revenue on the players. Your idea would be touted as an unfair advantage to the richest teams and owners who could afford to pay anything.

 

[Jake]

Yeah I would like a similar system to the NBA.

It would be nice if resigning your own players was like 10% cheaper or some number against the cap.

Idk if players would go for something like that or not though.

Players would like it because it's better than what they have now. The owners, on the other hand...

 

[Jake]

The owners don’t want the ability to spend more than a certain percentage of revenue on the players. Your idea would be touted as an unfair advantage to the richest teams and owners who could afford to pay anything.

The NFL's multi-billion national TV contracts are shared equally by all teams.

This isn't baseball where the Yankees TV contract produces 10-20 times more revenue than the Pirates TV contract.

 

[Cwby41]

But if their is revenue sharing the money is spread out amongst the teams. If the cheaper owners dont want to pay, its the same owners as now not ponying up. I think at the end of the day more money would end up in the players pockets. Honestly I know right now with Jerry, Cooper, Dak and Zeke would all be signed and done, as well as Byron Jones and Both Collins. We are here for football not accounting classes on the salary cap and who we cant keep, who is greedy, who is to cheap and who is disrespected. Just my thoughts

 

[lkelly]

Because the owners like the money they make. If they had their choice, the cap would be a lot lower.

 

[lkelly]

But if their is revenue sharing the money is spread out amongst the teams. If the cheaper owners dont want to pay, its the same owners as now not ponying up. I think at the end of the day more money would end up in the players pockets. Honestly I know right now with Jerry, Cooper, Dak and Zeke would all be signed and done, as well as Byron Jones and Both Collins. We are here for football not accounting classes on the salary cap and who we cant keep, who is greedy, who is to cheap and who is disrespected. Just my thoughts

You honestly think that all revenues are the same?

 

[fansince68]

When they renegotiate the new CBA why can't they have no salary cap for players drafted by a team or UDFA that teams develop. Teams wouldn't have to deal with losing home grown talent, the fans who are what makes this all work don't have to see their favorite players leave and teams are not punished for drafting well and developing their own. Have a hard cap for teams when they just want to go out and buy a championship. If a player wants to go and play somewhere else at the end of his contract he doesn't have to resign. We will not have all the BS we have now, Players could retire with team they started with like years ago. What are your thoughts on this? What are the reasons this won't work? Thanks

The players might reject that plan as being restrictive. They love unrestricted free agency. I love your plan though.

 

[Cowboys22]

The NFL's multi-billion national TV contracts are shared equally by all teams.

This isn't baseball where the Yankees TV contract produces 10-20 times more revenue than the Pirates TV contract.

There are teams like Dallas that make tons of revenue outside of the shared TV money and teams like Green Bay that don’t. It would be easier for those teams to overspend on whoever they want if it was allowed. But I go back to my other point. The owners themselves don’t want to be allowed to spend over a certain percentage of the shared revenue. It ensures most of them a large profit every year.

 

[xwalker]

When they renegotiate the new CBA why can't they have no salary cap for players drafted by a team or UDFA that teams develop. Teams wouldn't have to deal with losing home grown talent, the fans who are what makes this all work don't have to see their favorite players leave and teams are not punished for drafting well and developing their own. Have a hard cap for teams when they just want to go out and buy a championship. If a player wants to go and play somewhere else at the end of his contract he doesn't have to resign. We will not have all the BS we have now, Players could retire with team they started with like years ago. What are your thoughts on this? What are the reasons this won't work? Thanks

Do you understand the purpose of the salary cap?

 

[erod]

I believe teams should only be charged 75% of salaries for players they drafted as long as they keep them.

 

[JD_KaPow]

When they renegotiate the new CBA why can't they have no salary cap for players drafted by a team or UDFA that teams develop. Teams wouldn't have to deal with losing home grown talent, the fans who are what makes this all work don't have to see their favorite players leave and teams are not punished for drafting well and developing their own. Have a hard cap for teams when they just want to go out and buy a championship. If a player wants to go and play somewhere else at the end of his contract he doesn't have to resign. We will not have all the BS we have now, Players could retire with team they started with like years ago. What are your thoughts on this? What are the reasons this won't work? Thanks

It wouldn't work because it would raise players' salaries overall. Small-market owners wouldn't agree to it without changes to revenue sharing and large-market owners wouldn't agree to changes in revenue sharing.

 

[Xeven]

Salary Cap has destroyed the idea of Team in the NFL.

 

[Cwby41]

Do you understand the purpose of the salary cap?

yeah I do. Whats your point?

 

[jazzcat22]

You can't have a classification of cap money to certain players or group of players. Just as it was said the RB's are trying to ge their own separate union.
It just will not work.
You can't have a cap for FA players, then no cap for your drafted players or home grown players. You can't say a special soft cap for the higher paid players. Then every elite player will want their own special rules. Players will resent other players for being a pima donna type. Players then will resent management more than they may already do, if they do. You know some do.

The 1st thing that comes to mind will be QB's, no cap for them? Then there will be outrageous asking prices, and some will pay it. Those that do not, then they will never keep a good QB for their entire careers, as some other team will pay them.

What is the answers that everyone will be happy with. Used to be the drafted players when they did not have a rookie drafted player cap, which was the right thing to do. As they were getting huge contracts, but then there were, and are, so many players not playing to expectations or busts the owners needed to get it under control. Hense the rookie cap. Prove it type deals. But also which is why one can renegotiate after 3 years, such as Zeke, he proved it. Jury is still our on Dak.

Anyway what would be that fine line for all to be happy. I hate FA as it is now. Maybe some type of soft cap should be in play. What is that NBA luxury tax thing, I don't follow their cap so maybe something like that. But to have a player or group of players for 4 or 5 years, then you lose half of them to FA, then what.

Well, to answer that, you can lose players but you can sign players too. And what players has Dallas let go that went on to really help another team get to the SB, how many had great careers after they left Dallas. S maybe the way it is isn't really so bad.

Anyway, whatever they do, I am sure fans will look at it as good or bad as we usually do. I am not going to concern myself with it. I hated FA when it started and I hate it now from a fan point of view for keeping a team together. But I understand it for the players , as well as a team can improve if they want to spend the money.