Cooley Restructures

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Originally Posted by SkinsFanSince91

We have to have the best cap people in the NFL. I swear every offseason we are egregiously over the cap, and somehow we get enough for free agents and draft picks.

If the cap was anything like the US national deficit, Snyder's people would be heroes (at least on a national scale, we still look to save us from the wake of a DS spending spree..haha).

As Schneed said it is not that they are all that great although I do think they do a good job. There are basically two ways to handle the cap.

Straight forward
Cash over cap

Straight forward is as it seems. Not a ton of things like roster bonuses but they do have gradually escalating salaries. Put a good signing bonus on and you have players from the Eagles for example.

Cash over cap means you pay a somewhat smaller signing bonus but have two or three roster bonuses down the line and pretty low salaries to start with pretty high salaries in the end.

Example:

straight forward:
5 year deal
sb of 5 mil
salaries
500k 1mil 1mil 1.5mil 1.5mil = 5.5mil

cap numbers
1.5mil 2mil 2mil 2.5mil 2.5mil = 10.5mil

cash over cap:
5 year deal
sb of 3mil
salaries
500k 500k 500k 1mil 3mil = 5.5mil
rb
yr2-1mil yr3-1mil = 2mil

cap numbers
1.1mil 2.1mil 2.1mil 1.6mil 3.6mil = 10.5mil

so the cap numbers are slightly different but overall the salaries are the same and guaranteed money is the same.

then what happens in cash over cap is the roster bonuses get converted to signing bonuses which allows them to prorate so the cap numbers change to.
1.1mil 1.350mil 1.683mil 2.183mil 4.183mil

so most of the money gets pushed forward. as the expensive years come up salaries are turned into bonuses and get prorated also and restuctures change some other stuff but in the end the only actual expensive year for a guy is his last. if you keep your expensive guys per year to just a couple it is very manageable in the end. Some would say you have more flexibility with the cash over cap method if you execute it well. It kills you thiugh if you have bad talent evaluation because you become more "stuck" with a guy.