Redskins 2011 Salary Cap Status

[scowan]

Originally Posted by skinster

gtripp, someone said earlier on this site that there is no cap implications for dead money? Do you have information that differs?

Skinster, I'm with you on dead cap money. If there is a new agreement in place, the whole league is starting from scratch. Looks to me like you would have current contracts and then new contracts and everything starts from now. Its year "zero" again.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by scowan

Skinster, I'm with you on dead cap money. If there is a new agreement in place, the whole league is starting from scratch. Looks to me like you would have current contracts and then new contracts and everything starts from now. Its year "zero" again.

Link?

[skinster]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Link?

I have seen no link, the only place I saw that statement made was on this site. But the sentiment does make sense. The cap was lowered by 8 million dollars after league revenue went up, that doesn't make much sense. I thought that the main issue was that the players increase in money was rising too fast, not that they were currently making too much of the share.
Also, and more importantly, we know that the salary floor (possibly cap too, I'm not positive about that...but if it were the cap too, then I'd completely believe that there is no dead money penalties without a link) relates to only real dollars spent on team salary that year. Owners know that they are going to cut a certain amount of players every year and have a certain amount of dead cap every year, I don't think the salary floor (in salary dollars spent that year) would be agreed to be that close to the cap considering that owners know they are likely to have dead money, and it would significantly handicap who can be cut. (for example, if someone this year has 12.01 million guaranteed on their contract, they could not be cut by the team because the team would automatically be over the cap). I believe that the 120 million cap does not include dead money. I'm not saying that there are no penalties for cutting players, I'm saying that if there are penalties, there are other rules in the new cba that have not been disclosed yet (like a second cap on how much dead money a team can have per year).

We would already be over the cap already this year if dead money applied to the new cap considering we need to spend 108 million on salary this year, the cap is 120 million, and we have already cut carter and portis who had 10 mil a piece left on their signing bonus (and we're looking to cut many more players).