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[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

saw it. This is getting a bit out of hand. Skins are creating cap room by negotiating contract or renegotiating contracts, and turning roster bonuses and insentives into signing bonuses. When all this comes to fruition you will all see what I am talking about and everyone else is talking about. I am done with it. Its a never ending argument.

The only reason this is a never ending argument is because you're failing to see the complete picture. Yes, renegotiating delays the cap hit. But you're not seeing how fast the salary cap is growing. You can afford to delay cap hits when the salary cap limit is expected to grow $7-$10 million from 2005 to 2006. It will then grow another $7-8 million from 2006 to 2007. You're not understanding that the salary cap limit changes.

That's why we never run into a cap hell. The delays from renegotiating are carefully budgeted into the expected growth in the salary cap limit. As long as your cap overhang is growing at the same rate or slower than the salary cap limit is growing, then you're in great shape. That's what Snyder has been doing for the last 5 years.