WP: The Numbers Don't Lie (How Snyder Has Handled the Cap)

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Originally Posted by freddyg12

Not sure there were 20 teams that would've been even nearly as affected as us. It's one thing for 20 teams to have to cut a few players they don't want to, but the situation in 06 for us was much more dire than that.

But let's suppose you're right & we say that 20 teams are in some form of "cap hell," that leaves 12 teams who are presumably the top third in cap management (at that time). There are 12 teams in the playoffs every year as well.

So to me that says the Skins (again at the time in 06 when the old cba was ending) are one of the worst if not worst in cap management among 20 or so teams that are bad at it.

But it would have only lasted that season (2006) and 2007 would have been an uncapped year without the CBA. So it really wasn't ever that bad.

Edit. I guess what I am trying to say is that Snyder and his braintrust had this all figured out and the team was never going to suffer or be in CAP Hell with long term consequences. He knew that 1 of 2 things was possible. Either the old CBA would expire putting us in cap hell for one season prior to an uncaped season, or the CBA would be renewed with a cap increase included. Either way Danny was in a win win situation.

The consequences of that 1 year of cap hell would not have been that detrimental.