Rooney Is Cheap

Btw,I had make a thread about the salary cap few months ago in the NFL section


https://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/salary-cap-is-fake.34788/

 

Cap hit(the cap number) and spending are 2 different thing

 

I don't disagree with you here. The PTB seem stuck in values from the past, with which they won a number of championships and set a model for how to go about business. But times change, and while there's nothing wrong with honoring those traditions, you have to do so in a way that's relevant with modern times. Under Khan they've shown some aggression with roster moves that's sorely been lacking . We'll see if that encompasses other positions as well.

 

Because the cap is an accounting measure, not actual cash spent. So if I sign you to a five-year deal with a $25M signing bonus, I pay you that $25M when you sign the contract, but the cap accounts for it as is $5M per year for five years.

This is why you see teams restructure players set to earn large base salaries when they need cap space. You can take a player set to earn $15M in base salary (which is accounted for in the present year) and covert the bulk of it to signing bonus and get it prorated over the rest of the contract (and/or add some void years). So if that player had three years remaining, that $15M essentially becomes $5M in the eyes of the salary cap despite the player making the same $15M.

The problem is that not all owners can afford to shell out the lump cash amounts high-dollar signing bonuses require, which gives wealthier owners an advantage and is what a salary cap is meant to prevent. It also short-changes non-elite players, which comprise the bulk of the rosters across the league. Elite players keep getting paid more as teams find creative ways to account for their contracts, siphoning the team's cash resources.

 

This.....I read when the Browns had signed Watson to the guaranteed contract, Haslin has trying to find ways through his other business's to secure the escrom, he may be worth billions, but that is not necessarily cash money available. The ability to spend by the richest owners certainly can and does help a team, but the CAP line is still the same for every team, certainly a team may find a way to manipulate those totals, but the accounting still becomes due. Could Jerry have found a way to sign Micha to even that larger contract, was he wise to send him away, still debatable for the price, but with the investments already on the books it would have been hard to grow in the areas they need (more on Jerry mismanagement than anything else). I honestly do not know the Packers cash system, it would seem to be far more limited that wealthy independent owners, so a move for someone like Parsons seems like an 'all in' opportunity, having really team built through draft who are still on the first contract. In the early stages one can see this may indeed work well, the end results of course will show itself.

 

PTB?!


May I ask what that acronym is?


I have never heard of it.

 

Indeed...Powers That Be

 

Thank you!!

 

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Rooney is CHEAP n lazy

Won't upgrade from Meyer for a few hundred thousand with a young ol in NEED of quality coaching

But no, keeps him not improving n frankly bad habits setting in like cement
Just not smart

That field is terrible, put a new one down
This past week

Pitt was away perfect time to do so

Tomlin should've been gone after 2017 playoff loss to jags, hut here we are 8byears later and same crap a$$ team. Schemes, n results