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Originally Posted by T.O.Killa
I still don't the title of this thread. It should be more like a discussion on the cap penalty. Anyway, when I look at the cap numbers I don't see it hurting us like the experts say. It seems to me, that if there is a guy we want, we just use the subsequent years to charge the signing bonus. I think we have plenty of room to maneuver. We can save 8 Million cutting Hall, 4 Million cutting Moss, 4 million Cutting Wilson, 1 million cutting Jammal brown, and there are others that could be cut. There are a few that could be restructured. Like Trent Williams. Say we want a guy that will cost 10 million a year for five years, the way I understand it, we could give him a nine million dollars roster bonus and charge it to the next four years. Making him count ford 12.2 million the next four years. It seems to me that we have a fairly cheap roster now, and can afford to make the next year a little heavy. Especially, since the cap number should begin to skyrocket in the next two years. I would like to here if I am correct from some of our cap guru's.
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It hurts us, in the sense that we can't go splurge in FA and get unlimited players that way, but as you showed, there are definitely ways to manage the cap wisely. As long as we don't push a lot into future years, then we still ought to be able to sign a couple of solid FA's + keep the guys we want. Without know how, I would imagine (or hope) BA is looking at the numbers along this line: 9mill this year (again keep in mind had we "played by the rules" we would have had some cap impact from Haynesworth so this should just be looked at like dead cap in my mind), and 4.5mill "dead cap/penalty" for the next two years. We might not get every player, but as long as the NFL/NFLPA don't pull anymore last minute hijinx then I expect MS/BA will be more than able to put a comprehensive approach to the draft/FA period of the off-season.
Firstdown, the league sets the cap, and will not let us go over it. Therefore if we ignored the penalty, the league would not approve any new contracts, and if we were over the calculated cap, then they would impose a cash fine against the team every day it is over. I am pretty sure Dan Snyder is not going to pay a daily fine in lieu of restructuring a few contracts and managing the cap appropriately.