Redskins 2013 Salary Cap Status

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

My long arse story short if the NFL said we are being penalized the $36 mill, and the team is over the CAP now or right at it, after the NFL already took $18 mill last year, I would presume then that the team is going to have to get $18 mill below whatever the CAP is to repay the second $18 mill.

I'll try another analogy: Beer Pong...lol. lets say I have 36 red solo cups on a table with 36 ping pong balls inside. I'm not happy with the ping pong balls so I throw all of them away. Now you come along and say "you can't do that". So you take 18 of my red solo cups away from me and plan to take away the other 18 later. But I go out and fill those cups with 18 ping pong balls..... how do you get paid the other 18 cups? One would presume I would have to give you those cups. Mean while all the other owners have 36 cups plus now my cups added to their stash?

I know I'm being an idiot about this somehow. and it probably has been answered 1000000 times.

What I'm worried about is we fans not accounting for the $18 mill penalty, not minusing it from the over all CAP for this year per team and then seeing how far over our penalty we are and how much we have to reduce salaries or get below?

For some reason I just keep forseeing the team being well over what they need to be since they owe the $18 mill. What was last years CAP? what is the Skins CAP right now? and what does the team need to do to get below or repay the $18 this year? The OP showed us how we could get $19 below the CAP but is that for the penalty or after the penalty?

You're way over thinking this.

You have $20 to spend this week, and $20 to spend next week. I come along and take $10 from you this week and next. How much do you have to spend each week?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

You're way over thinking this.

You have $20 to spend this week, and $20 to spend next week. I come along and take $10 from you this week and next. How much do you have to spend each week?

Exactly. It's simple.

It's not a fine, it's a penalty. We don't have to pay anything. Our cap space got reduced, so we can pay our players by $36 million less than we otherwise would have. The rest of the league gets a piece of that $36 million added to their cap, so they get more space, offsetting our loss in space.

So the players on a league-wide basis are kept whole.