Redskins 2012 Salary Cap Status

[HoopheadVII]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

I guess my source was wrong. I was told that after the new CBA apparently Allen and Co. found that the bonuses don't count against the CAP. In other words we sign a guy to a 5 yr 10 mill with a signing bonus of 7 mill..... the 7 mill would not count against our CAP and basically only the 5yr 10mill would which is 2 mill for this year. I was told that is how we were able to sign the players we got after the league took our 18mill leaving us with 18mill to play with.

It made sense because I couldn't figure out how we had not gone over our limit already.

That doesn't make sense - that would essentially make the salary cap pointless. Every salary would get shifted into signing bonus every year.

Plus, giving people big signing bonuses when they didn't count against a cap is what got the 'Skins penalised in the first place.