Good/Bad News for a Change - 2013 18MM cap penalty probably (not) going away

[Coff]

I'm just going to make an observation here:

For the past thirteen years, the Redskins have consistently been the biggest spender in the off-season. Nearly without exception, they have every year made a giant splash in free-agent signings. And this has been the greatest criticism of a team that has been one of the least successful teams in the NFL over that time period. The Redskins have been mocked for foolishly wasting money and continuing to believe that whatever holes the team has can be quickly and easily filled via free agency.

Then, in 2012, within hours of the beginning of free agency, the Redskins were stripped of the opportunity to engage in the free-agent market as they usually do. Nine months later, the team won its first division title in thirteen seasons, mostly on the backs of unproven, hungry, young talent.

I'm not convinced that allowing the Redskins to go back to their old ways is going to produce results different from those of the past.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Coff

I'm not convinced that allowing the Redskins to go back to their old ways is going to produce results different from those of the past.

Only re-hiring Vinny Cerrrato would be going back to our old ways. Allen knows how to spend wisely.

Speaking of Vinny, I was flipping through radio stations in the car a few days ago and discovered Vinny HAS HIS OWN SHOW on CBS Sports Radio. Wow.

Maybe this is not news, but I was shocked.

CBS Sports Radio just replaced my local ESPN Radio affiliate...so now I have a choice between Yahoo Sports Radio or CBS in the car...no more ESPN. Not a fan of the CBS yet...Tiki Barber in the morning, Vinny in the mid-day, then Doug "Do you know I played at OSU" Gottlieb...yikes.

[GoSkins!]

Originally Posted by Coff

I'm just going to make an observation here:

For the past thirteen years, the Redskins have consistently been the biggest spender in the off-season. Nearly without exception, they have every year made a giant splash in free-agent signings. And this has been the greatest criticism of a team that has been one of the least successful teams in the NFL over that time period. The Redskins have been mocked for foolishly wasting money and continuing to believe that whatever holes the team has can be quickly and easily filled via free agency.

Then, in 2012, within hours of the beginning of free agency, the Redskins were stripped of the opportunity to engage in the free-agent market as they usually do. Nine months later, the team won its first division title in thirteen seasons, mostly on the backs of unproven, hungry, young talent.

I'm not convinced that allowing the Redskins to go back to their old ways is going to produce results different from those of the past.

I have been thinking this same thing ever since the Giants were watching the Redskins and Cowboys battle for the NFC EAST crown. Mara forced the Redskins to be fiscally conservative and utilize more young, hungry players along with re-signing key team members from the year before.

Kind of ironic huh?

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

I have been thinking this same thing ever since the Giants were watching the Redskins and Cowboys battle for the NFC EAST crown. Mara forced the Redskins to be fiscally conservative and utilize more young, hungry players along with re-signing key team members from the year before.

Kind of ironic huh?

The skins have been fiscally conservative since Shanahan and Allen took over. It was nothing like it was under the "Snyderatto years." If Mara didn't try to F us over, we wouldnt have spent like crazy. we would have probably signed 2 or 3 talented, but not elite secondary players to reasonable contracts, and perhaps signed someone like Eddie Royal who would have made the roster instead of Brandon Banks. There's not telling what we would have done, but we certainly wouldn't have done anything crazy.

... Except perhaps sign Peyton Manning, if we were truly seriously interested. If we had, i really dont think we would have drafted RGIII. Just seems like overkill. Yeah, we had already traded for the #2 pick, but we easily could have flipped the pick to the browns, used our 1st rounder on Matt Kalil or Morris Claybourne, our 2nd on Janoris Jenkins, and still gotten Kirk Cousins to eventually take over from Manning.

Come to think of it, if that was our plan, then Mara really did screw us over. Not that we could have forseen RGIII getting hurt or Cousins being as good as he appears to be, but that scenario would seem to set our team up for more short and long-term success than what we have now. Oh well, so much for that crazy fantasy.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

I have been thinking this same thing ever since the Giants were watching the Redskins and Cowboys battle for the NFC EAST crown. Mara forced the Redskins to be fiscally conservative and utilize more young, hungry players along with re-signing key team members from the year before.

Kind of ironic huh?

I think that was part of the plan 3 yrs back when Shanahan and company took over the team. The 18 mil hit hurt sign better quality younger players if anything.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

I hope we get something back... looks like we have next to no cap space as-is. Sure, we can make room by cutting Hall and restructuring guys, but doing that's what got us into cap hell to begin with. I don't think we can really improve our team that much next year if we are assessed the full cap penalty.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

So can someone answer this for me:

Did we stay under the cap by 18mil this year?

I had heard conflicting things to say we didn't.

probably semantics...
Our cap was reduced by 18,000,000 so therefore we stayed under our cap but we were not 18,000,000 under our team cap number. We were 18 million under the general cap number.

[MTK]

http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Looking at the cap spread sheet, we will have to be some where in the neighborhood of 29 mil under the cap this coming up year. We are currently only about 7 mil under the cap and the punishment set out by the league was for us to be 36 mil under the cap between two years, 2012 and 2013. The way it looks now if the penalty stays in place is we will have a cap of around 91mil this year when you take into the account for the penalty that is left over.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Looking at the cap spread sheet, we will have to be some where in the neighborhood of 29 mil under the cap this coming up year. We are currently only about 7 mil under the cap and the punishment set out by the league was for us to be 36 mil under the cap between two years, 2012 and 2013. The way it looks now if the penalty stays in place is we will have a cap of around 91mil this year when you take into the account for the penalty that is left over.

you were deceived

i believe we were under the cap and penalty

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Looking at the cap spread sheet, we will have to be some where in the neighborhood of 29 mil under the cap this coming up year. We are currently only about 7 mil under the cap and the punishment set out by the league was for us to be 36 mil under the cap between two years, 2012 and 2013. The way it looks now if the penalty stays in place is we will have a cap of around 91mil this year when you take into the account for the penalty that is left over.

I dont know what cap sheet you're looking at. If we are assessed the full 18MM hit, the sheet on this site has us only a couple million under the projected cap for 2013.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

I dont know what cap sheet you're looking at. If we are assessed the full 18MM hit, the sheet on this site has us only a couple million under the projected cap for 2013.

Look at the link that Matty posted. 120,7 mil was the cap for this year for the league last year. Meaning we would only have 102,7 available if we took the full 18m. Our bottom line # was something like 113,9. So we weren't at that 102,7 # that would have split the 36mil over the two seasons.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Look at the link that Matty posted. 120,7 mil was the cap for this year for the league last year. Meaning we would only have 102,7 available if we took the full 18m. Our bottom line # was something like 113,9. So we weren't at that 102,7 # that would have split the 36mil over the two seasons.

keep in mind that it is not official, and that it was last updated before the regular season started

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Look at the link that Matty posted. 120,7 mil was the cap for this year for the league last year. Meaning we would only have 102,7 available if we took the full 18m. Our bottom line # was something like 113,9. So we weren't at that 102,7 # that would have split the 36mil over the two seasons.

Are you trying to argue that we didnt take an 18MM cap penalty last year, and as a result, we'll take more than 18MM this year? You are mistaken. The NFL forced us to take the 18MM hit last year. I beleive you are misinterpretting the information on the cap spreadsheet:

The Warpath

Originally Posted by CrazyCanuck

My sheets include an $18M penalty. However we had $13M of unused cap space from last year which helps to offset.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

BHA I may be, and I'll admit it if I am wrong. That is why I asked the question and I was hoping for CC to confirm we took the 18 mil this year.