Schefter - Cowboys restructure Ware's deal to create $4M in cap space.

[honyock]

Most teams are trying to "push" $$$ to 2015 when the new TV money will be figured into the cap.

The latest projections I've seen are that the cap will be relatively flat until 2016, and at that point it will go up maybe 4-5% per year. So maybe rising in the $5 million range in 2016.

 

[Yuma Cactus]

The latest projections I've seen are that the cap will be relatively flat until 2016, and at that point it will go up maybe 4-5% per year. So maybe rising in the $5 million range in 2016.

The new TV deal starts in the 2014 season and that will be figured into the cap for 2015. It will go up then.

 

[jobberone]

Business as usual but we do need to draft better (cheaper contracts) and retain the right guys for the right price.

 

[honyock]

The new TV deal starts in the 2014 season and that will be figured into the cap for 2015. It will go up then.

Not according to the NFL. The new deals start then, but the increased revenue is staggered over the next few years. It doesn't go up all at once. The NFL has said that the salary cap should be relatively flat until 2016.

 

[speedkilz88]

Any team trying to pull off tricks like that should get hit with a cap penalty just like we did. There is no difference in doing that & front loading contracts in an uncapped year.

It all started when Deion was signed by the 49ers. Tagliabue signed off on doing it that way despite warnings by Jerry. The 49ers didn't even stop there and made some under the table deals with players that they would later get penalized draft picks but they still got a trophy.

Since then teams have perfected how to set up the contracts. Many of these contracts have built in restructuring every year allowing teams to do just what the Cowboys are doing but also leaving the option to cut some players and balancing out the accelerated bonus with their salary that isn't paid that season.

 

[Idgit]

Thankfully the team drafted so poorly 4-5 years ago that they don't have to worry about keeping quality players.

Push this scenario into the future a year or two and we're talking Dez, Murray, Tyron, Lee, and Carter that all will have new deals either on the books or set to be on the books. If Harris develops, he's there too. Dan Bailey is there although kicker isn't a huge price, it's still a price for a good one.

Not to mention that saying "this is as bad as it gets" kind of ignores the entire state of the franchise. No OL, weak DL and the absolute need to restructure in order to operate without any guarantee there will be enough money readily available and without pushing the burden into the future to upgrade either line to a significant extent.

If this is as bad as it gets and deferring the problem down the line is the solution.....what exactly does that do for Dallas?

Stagnation, I guess.

Or else...the reported cap number everybody worries about isn't an actual measure of the cap-management options available to the team at all, and we're just going year by year, maximizing how much of the book value of the players' contracts we can report for any given season. And the deals themselves are setup so it's a team option to exercise the triggers we need to exercise in order to get whatever new deals done the team decides it's going to make. And the FA spending from last season was built-in to the model, since we also knew we didn't have veteran contracts from three/four years prior that we needed or wanted to digest.

I'd also flatly reject your lopsided characterization of the state of the franchise, but then, that's another story.

 

[Hoofbite]

Or else...the reported cap number everybody worries about isn't an actual measure of the cap-management options available to the team at all, and we're just going year by year, maximizing how much of the book value of the players' contracts we can report for any given season. And the deals themselves are setup so it's a team option to exercise the triggers we need to exercise in order to get whatever new deals done the team decides it's going to make. And the FA spending from last season was built-in to the model, since we also knew we didn't have veteran contracts from three/four years prior that we needed or wanted to digest.

I'd also flatly reject your lopsided characterization of the state of the franchise, but then, that's another story.

So Dallas has an OL and a DL?

 

[burmafrd]

The new TV deal starts in the 2014 season and that will be figured into the cap for 2015. It will go up then.

You like so many others have not taken into account the increase in money to be spent on benefits and retirement for old timers. $1 Billion of the new money was spent JUST on the Pre 1993 retired players. Add the Billions that are now added to the medical area also come from the new money. THAT is why any real increase of the Cap is not going to happen any time soon.

 

[Wood]

Not according to the NFL. The new deals start then, but the increased revenue is staggered over the next few years. It doesn't go up all at once. The NFL has said that the salary cap should be relatively flat until 2016.

somebody finally understands it.