With the CBA talks improving, it looks like we could have a CAP of $141 million this year escalating to $161 million by 2014. This may have been discussed in full, but with those that have knowledge of the CAP situation, with the contracts we lost like Gholston, Jenkins etc. and knowing we can sign Harris to a more CAP friendly deal on top of possible restructuring of Sanchez's deal, and Mike T's skills.......is there anyway we CAN'T afford Cro, Edwards and Tone? (unless of course they want ridiculous money).
I've read reports saying the owners want a cap that's closer to the 2008 cap of 118M. Where did you get your numbers from?
Right now our cap value is at just over $100 million, so I think we could get it done if those numbers you posted are correct. Without restructuring Mark's deal too. We'd have roughly $40 million in cap space which is plenty IMO. The only thing that is a issue is that other teams will have much more cap space now too. I can see us getting outbid for Holmes because a time "like" Miami and their Marshall deal will come along and back up the truck.
Considering the Jets are at 114M, yeah. But if that happens then I can see some substantial re-working of deals from Tanny and Ari Nissim. It'll be an interesting offseason for the Jets.
Yeah but I'd still think if the cap is close to 118 then we're only bringing back one free agent....unless the jets decide to entertain trade offers for Harris
To compound the problems the various reporters (AD Brandt and the like) are saying people can be free agents after four years. It was a long shot that they'd control Holmes/Cromartie/Coleman/B Smith/E Smith/Coleman/Clemens (who cares about him, I know)/Ihedigbo/Turner but now it's increasingly likely they're all free agents.
High end estimates for total NFL revenues at the end of 2007 were $7 billion. Estimates for 2010 are about $9 billion. So the "pie" has grown about 28% in three years. There's no way, even under a CBA that shrinks the player portion, that you arrive at a cap number at or below 2008 if it's based on revenue projections. To do that would literally mean league-wide restructuring of current contracts. They've gotta boost it at least 10%. And there's a good chance the rookies are going to take a disproportionate share of the salary hits, and in fact the rookie hard cap may be written out of the Cap figure entirely and seperated from veteran payrolls. Bottom line: I'll believe Soxx's reptilian takeover theory before I believe a $118 million cap number.
Here is the latest from Andrew Brandt, who seems to be pushing his POV everywhere in media these days, regarding the salary cap portion of the negotiations. From this we can pull out a few numbers (see bold). What I am not sure about is when we talk about salary cap today, are we including benefits or not? Given it is called salary cap, I'd guess not but I'm not sure. If benefits are not included then the cap will be somewhere between $114M and $126M. If benefits are included, then we are talking $141M - $151M. edit: Here is some info from askthecommish.com This indicates that benefits are removed when talking about salary cap per team. So, we seem to be looking at a cap between $114M and $126M assuming that the two sides are close enough for a deal.
I was talking team salary-thus I'm excluding benefits. I'd bet you get a cap that's on the high end of the 114-126 range-I bet the owners kind of pay off currrent players but have restrictions on future growth. If they add a few roster spots you might even see a 130 million number. The Jets are at about 100 right now. They could knock off about five million from sanchez's contract by converting salary to a signing bonus so that gets you to 95, you have to sign the rookies so you're at about 97, with a ton of holes to fill.
