Redskin Salary Cap Question - NLTBE Credits

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by Bill B

So if a team has 3 million in cap room at the end of the season and knows they won't use it, they can write bogus incentives into player's contracts to create LTBE incentives that won't be achieved. This makes the LTBE incentives not achieved greather than the NLTBE incentives achieved, so the team's salary cap is raised the following year.

I think you summed up the LTBE and NLTBE stuff pretty well. The Skins received $522K in cap credits this year most likely from these incentives.

As for sticking in some bogus LTBEs to fill up the current year's cap and save money on the following year's cap, it is a good idea that I'm sure the Skins are aware of or have used in the past. The problem is the Skins are usually pushed right up against the cap limit anyways, so there's rarely any excess cap room to push to the future.