Redskin Salary Cap Question - NLTBE Credits

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Originally Posted by over the mountain

interesting post, never new about LTBEs and what now . . . one question thoo, you say " they can write bogus incentives into player's contracts to create LTBE incentives that wont be achieved" . .what is a bogus incentive that would still be consider a LTBE? i.e jason campbelll gets 3 mill bonus if he makes 100 tackles? or jason campbell gets 3 mill if he throws 70 tds . . . both dont seem likely to be achieved so why would they be classified as a LTBE? real curious as to just how the skins rework contracts so much, open up just enough cap room to slip under every year and if they use this as one of many cap tools/strategies . . .

Basically, if we restructured Casey Rabach to have a 5 million dollar LTBE incentive this year to play 95% of the teams' special teams plays. Because it's technically LTBE, we would have to admininster an extra $5 million to this years' cap for Rabach's LTBE bonus. However, when Rabach inevitably doesn't hit his LTBE (because, ya know, he doesn't actually play special teams), we get a $5 million cap credit for next season. Pretty sly stuff.

On the contrary a NLTBE incentive would be something thats statsistically unexpected such as "Jason Campbell gets an extra $7 million if he throws 40 TDs". In this case, we do NOT have to make room under the cap for Campbell's $7 million NLTBE bonus, but if he does hit it somehow, we lose $7 million in cap space for next season.