Free Agency
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Mitch-Dolphins
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Free Agency
Seeing all the FA signings and the contract numbers today in the NFL makes me wish we had a salary cap and used contracts with salaries. We have ConManager and Rich's salary lines to implement it. It would make for great content for Rich's Gazette. Ha!
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Dean-Atlanta
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Re: Free Agency
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Dean
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James-Eagles
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Re: Free Agency
Been there, done that, and it didn't work. Next.
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James-Eagles
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Re: Free Agency
I want to point out this wouldn't emulate the NFL. The reason you are seeing what you are seeing in free agency is because the NFL "hard cap" is easy to exploit.
NFL teams carry over cap money from year to year, so the Raiders can sign all those players because they have 30 million in cap money from last season. So a team's cap is (the base salary cap) + (unused cap money from the previous year) - (incentives and dead money). New England was over 45 million below the cap last season.
Example If Miami has a cap hit of 150m and the team cap that year is 200. They will get 50m added to the next year's base salary cap. They can do this for as long as needed as long as they don't go below the fake NFL floor (see below).
Also remember salary bonuses are spread out over the length of the contract. Void years can be added to a contract up to 5 years. This modification can be done even to existing contracts. They also can get players to convert salary to bonus. Josh Allen convert almost 15m of 2026 salary to bonus so that cap hit went from 15m this season to 3m over the next 5.
So, for example, if Miami had a player sign a 5-year contract with a 50 million bonus, that would be 10 years. In the final year of that contract, Miami can add 4 void years to the contract, which would lower the cap hit to the bonus cap hit to $2 million in the final year and, if not resigned, $8 million the next year in dead money. The only restriction is that the total contract length cannot exceed 5 years.
The cap is easy to manipulate.
NFL Floor
As for the NFL floor, it is also easy to abuse. Yes, they have a floor, but it has little to do with the actual cap. A team has to spend 89% of the cap over a 4-year period. The key wording there is "spend." By spend they mean money going out to players. While cap numbers spread out bonuses, incentives are applied to next year's cap hit. The year the player receives payment is counted towards the floor. Restructuring your big players every few years ensures that you never hit the floor, even if your team has been below it for a few years.
Example: You have been below the floor for a few years. You extend your QB with a high salary bonus. This move will take you over the floor and most likely allow you to stay under the floor for the next 3 seasons.
A prime example of abusing the cap is the Browns and Watson. They have restructured his contract every year, converting salary to bonus and adding void years. So much so that he was supposed to be about a 55M cap this season from the original contract, and he has 131M left in cap hit in this, the final year of his contract, and almost 90 million spread over the next 4 years, which are void years.
As you can see, the NFL is really a joke, and NFL teams can keep any player they want to keep, and the player is willing to resign with them.
NFL teams carry over cap money from year to year, so the Raiders can sign all those players because they have 30 million in cap money from last season. So a team's cap is (the base salary cap) + (unused cap money from the previous year) - (incentives and dead money). New England was over 45 million below the cap last season.
Example If Miami has a cap hit of 150m and the team cap that year is 200. They will get 50m added to the next year's base salary cap. They can do this for as long as needed as long as they don't go below the fake NFL floor (see below).
Also remember salary bonuses are spread out over the length of the contract. Void years can be added to a contract up to 5 years. This modification can be done even to existing contracts. They also can get players to convert salary to bonus. Josh Allen convert almost 15m of 2026 salary to bonus so that cap hit went from 15m this season to 3m over the next 5.
So, for example, if Miami had a player sign a 5-year contract with a 50 million bonus, that would be 10 years. In the final year of that contract, Miami can add 4 void years to the contract, which would lower the cap hit to the bonus cap hit to $2 million in the final year and, if not resigned, $8 million the next year in dead money. The only restriction is that the total contract length cannot exceed 5 years.
The cap is easy to manipulate.
NFL Floor
As for the NFL floor, it is also easy to abuse. Yes, they have a floor, but it has little to do with the actual cap. A team has to spend 89% of the cap over a 4-year period. The key wording there is "spend." By spend they mean money going out to players. While cap numbers spread out bonuses, incentives are applied to next year's cap hit. The year the player receives payment is counted towards the floor. Restructuring your big players every few years ensures that you never hit the floor, even if your team has been below it for a few years.
Example: You have been below the floor for a few years. You extend your QB with a high salary bonus. This move will take you over the floor and most likely allow you to stay under the floor for the next 3 seasons.
A prime example of abusing the cap is the Browns and Watson. They have restructured his contract every year, converting salary to bonus and adding void years. So much so that he was supposed to be about a 55M cap this season from the original contract, and he has 131M left in cap hit in this, the final year of his contract, and almost 90 million spread over the next 4 years, which are void years.
As you can see, the NFL is really a joke, and NFL teams can keep any player they want to keep, and the player is willing to resign with them.
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Dean-Atlanta
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Re: Free Agency
James, I think he was pressing your button on this issue because he likes to stir the pot.
I don't see it likely that Rich and Charlie bring back the previous salary cap.
If teams want more movement in free agency, the way to do that is probably more continued gradual reduction of the points.
That is idea will also get some going, meaning we are likely to do neither.
I don't see it likely that Rich and Charlie bring back the previous salary cap.
If teams want more movement in free agency, the way to do that is probably more continued gradual reduction of the points.
That is idea will also get some going, meaning we are likely to do neither.
Dean
The Atlanta Falcons
"Watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal"
- Supertramp, from "The Logical Song"
The Atlanta Falcons
"Watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal"
- Supertramp, from "The Logical Song"
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