http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-union-scrambling-to-push-up-2012-cap-number/ Source: League, union “scrambling” to push up 2012 cap number Posted by Mike Florio on March 3, 2012, 11:16 AM EST gty_rainy_day_funds_jrs_110415_wg Getty Images So why don’t teams know, only 10 days away from the launch of a new league year, the 2012 salary cap? A source with knowledge of the situation tells PFT that the league and the NFLPA currently are “scrambling” to increase the tentative number. The problem arises from two realities. Under the new CBA, players receive a finite number (47 percent of specifically defined revenues) to cover both salaries and benefits. But the costs of the benefits have increased, driving more of the allocation away from salaries. And so, for roughly a week, the NFLPA has been trying to re-do the numbers in order to trim back the benefit costs and in turn drive up the salary cap. It’s not the first smoke-and-mirrors exercise under the new CBA. The absence of a performance-based pay system in 2011 directly resulted in a higher salary cap for 2011. This year, the return of the performance-based pay system (at $3.46 million per team) takes money away from the cap. While the union currently is trying to find a solution, it’s a shared problem. The league doesn’t want the players to think they got a bad deal in 2011, and so the league has a certain amount of willingness to cooperate with the effort. Moreover, the teams (most of them, at least) want to drive up the cap number in order to have more money to spend. Regardless, the number will come out at some point within the next 10 days. The longer it takes, the more likely it will be that, in the end, this problem has no acceptable solution.
Just saw this prior on rotoworld, the cap will be increased for sure, just how much is the real question.
Well since the former Jets intern is now the commissioner I imagine at least eleventy billion dollars
It sounds like any cap increase should be quite minuscule. If you read the blurb players only get a set amount of the NFLs revenue (47%). That 47% consists of salary + benefits. So all they're trying to do is cut the benefits, so that salaries could increase. So best case scenario IMO, I wouldn't expect an increase of more than 3-4 million, up to MAYBE 7ish million if were really lucky
Absolutely, but its not like were gonna go from barely being able to resign Pouha plus maybe adding a mediocre safety, to getting in the hunt for Mario Williams. But none the less 3-4 million is plenty to land a safety better than Smith
The salary cap should be but cut in half. For all teams. Why? The exact same players would still be playing and the exact same fans would still be going to the game but spending A LOT LESS. The players who earn $100,000 PER SNAP would still be playing if 'only' earning $50,000 per snap. AND I could afford to take my son and daughters to a game once in a while. /rant
The owners pay them. If the salaries of every player are cut in half, there is no way ticket prices get cut in half, or even reduced. Ticket prices are where they are because fans have proven that they will pay them, not because Mark Sanchez makes a lot of money. If you want ticket prices to be lowered, then somehow convince the 70,000 STH's to boycott paying until prices are slashed. Cutting player salaries simply puts more money in Woody & Friends' pocket, not yours.
