Why cant they get rid of the cap.
At least in the smaller markets.The salary cap is one of the reasons why there's so much money for the players to begin w/.
Why cant they get rid of the cap. Have a hard cap on teams trying to buy a Super Bowl but no cap on players you drafted or signed as UDFA. This way we keep players we want without having the animosity we have like Zeke last year and now Dak and coop this year. You can keep teams altogether and not be punished for drating well and coaching players up. Honestly we should start a union for fans so we have a voice in all this. After all we are the driving force for all of this, we should have a voice at the table or use what would hurt most, boycott games and dont show up or watch.
Then the NFL begins to turn into the NBA.Why cant they get rid of the cap. Have a hard cap on teams trying to buy a Super Bowl but no cap on players you drafted or signed as UDFA. This way we keep players we want without having the animosity we have like Zeke last year and now Dak and coop this year. You can keep teams altogether and not be punished for drating well and coaching players up. Honestly we should start a union for fans so we have a voice in all this. After all we are the driving force for all of this, we should have a voice at the table or use what would hurt most, boycott games and dont show up or watch.
Why cant they get rid of the cap. Have a hard cap on teams trying to buy a Super Bowl but no cap on players you drafted or signed as UDFA. This way we keep players we want without having the animosity we have like Zeke last year and now Dak and coop this year. You can keep teams altogether and not be punished for drating well and coaching players up. Honestly we should start a union for fans so we have a voice in all this. After all we are the driving force for all of this, we should have a voice at the table or use what would hurt most, boycott games and dont show up or watch.
Great point never thought of that but it should work.A better idea would be to give a discount against the cap for drafted players. So if you resigned a player you drafted, 50% of it would count against the cap. Or whatever number they come up with. Any other player would count 100% against the cap.
That wouldn't be unfair to any team and puts emphasis on the draft.
A better idea would be to give a discount against the cap for drafted players. So if you resigned a player you drafted, 50% of it would count against the cap. Or whatever number they come up with. Any other player would count 100% against the cap.
That wouldn't be unfair to any team and puts emphasis on the draft.
I think a 15% discount (or exception might be the better term, since they'd be spending above the normal cap) would be just enough to give the drafting team the option to keep their player, without making it too easy or too hard.The salary cap is not about the fans. Its about the owners. The owners know that if there were no salary cap some owners would spend huge amounts of money for players while others would try to cheap their way through the season. They used to talk about big markets and small markets but the fact is cheap owners can be anywhere.
The reason they can allow teams to hide their owns players they drafted from the cap is because that would drive up the cost of players and eventually nullify free agency. Imagine if Jerry could pay Dak $50 million a year and not have a penny hit the cap while other teams would have to pay him $50 million and have all of it hit the cap. It wouldn't work.
However, I do think the current system penalizes teams that draft well. If you are a team that draft 5 good players one year, and they all make all-pro, then in 40 or 5 years you have the challenge of retaining all those players. No team can, especially if they draft well several years in a row. So, for doing a good job drafting, they get to see all their players gobbled up by teams who don;t draft well. Instead the pick off the free agents from other teams. Its a contradiction because the NFL is trying to make such a big deal of the draft.
I suggest some kind of hybrid system. Teams should get some kind of cap discount off players they drafted. Teams get a right of first refusal for every player they drafted. When they are free agents, the players can get offers from any team but their own team has a right to retain them if they are will to pay the player what the other team offered. In return, the cap impact for these players would be discounted. This allows players to stay if they want, teams to keep them if they want, and fans get to see their favorite players on their favorite teams. The players still get the owners bidding against each other for their services. Teams get to retain they guys they drafted. no more compensatory draft picks, franchise tags, or anything like that. The only question is how much of a discount do teams get for signing their own players. Another option is to protect 1 contract from the cap instead of the franchise tag. Imagine if every team could take one player on the roster off the cap, like the QB. Less animosity between players and owners for one thing.
I think the current system will eventually kill football. Adding more games to the schedule may raise more revenue but it does not fix the cap problems.
Yeah, those poor multimillionaires.The amazing thing about this topic is how the NFL has gotten fans to take sides on salary negotiations about how much a player should make. I think half the threads on here are focused on how much one player should be paid.
Fans are sitting around arguing how a player should make less money because of a salary cap that is put in place by the owners to play players less than their market value.
If the cap was gone jerry would absolute buy another round. He's getting long in the tooth.We would just find another way to be mediocre
The amazing thing about this topic is how the NFL has gotten fans to take sides on salary negotiations about how much a player should make. I think half the threads on here are focused on how much one player should be paid.
Fans are sitting around arguing how a player should make less money because of a salary cap that is put in place by the owners to play players less than their market value.
yep, it caused people with money to think and take chances instead of just having money. I remember one of the 90's teams being called "Best team money could buy. " It kind of stung at the time because I was younger.Smaller markets
I am shocked that the rank and file allow 1 to 3 or 4 players to take so much of the cap dollars, each position should have a max hit of cap dollars and the max of any position should be capped at 8-9 % max, the whole idea of a union is to make sure every member is fairly paid and right now it's just a few are sucking up the majority of the cap. Cap hits also should not be allowed to spread across a contract due to signing bonuses. To me it means the union heads are in bed with the owners.Maybe cap each position more equally?