Next Year's Cap Situation

[love them hogs]

I have a question.If for some strange reason we dont use up all of our cap space this year,could we give that extra money to players now to lower there cap hit for next year?

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by love them hogs

I have a question.If for some strange reason we dont use up all of our cap space this year,could we give that extra money to players now to lower there cap hit for next year?

yeah, you can rework their contract and move base salaries or roster bonuses up or cut and resign or whatnot to take the remaining pro-rated money hit immediately etc.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by love them hogs

I have a question.If for some strange reason we dont use up all of our cap space this year,could we give that extra money to players now to lower there cap hit for next year?

This is kind of tricky from a human nature standpoint. If you frontload a players deal and he ends up outperforming that deal, and then he sees his pay cut the next year as a trade off for front loading the deal, he's going to feel like he's getting the shaft. Sure he signed his deal in good faith, but if there wasn't a human factor in it, holdouts wouldn't exist.