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Projected salary cap to be about $130 million

Southbeach 2 said:
This year's TV revenue took a 40% jump from $5 to $7 Billion. The union borrowed by trading off future benefits to make the last 2 year's caps livable, and need to put that back in place. I could see next yea's cap jumping by $20M but no one knows or isn't saying that for sure. I haven't seen anything current on this.
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The only deal that can change is the Directv one. The CBS/NBC/FOX/ESPN deals are all done for the foreseeable future. $20M seems like a lot.
 
datruth55 said:
Just because there's more money available doesn't increase a players value. If he wants $9 mil a year then he can walk. We can sign two veterans for that price and improve our depth.

The greater concern for me is how many O-lineman, that fit the scheme, are now going to be available. As someone mentioned Collins, Monroe and Veldheer may not be available, not to mention Beedles, Asamoah and Schwartz. Not sure how we can replace at least 4 O-lineman without some free agency and this made it much tougher. The extra money could allow us to re-sign Starks though so maybe we won't have to focus on drafting a DT for his replacement.
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CBS Sports had the projection of $126-128M a month or so ago, and that was what teams were going on. I don't see this as changing anything on the OL players availability this year.
 
datruth55 said:
Just because there's more money available doesn't increase a players value. If he wants $9 mil a year then he can walk. We can sign two veterans for that price and improve our depth.

The greater concern for me is how many O-lineman, that fit the scheme, are now going to be available. As someone mentioned Collins, Monroe and Veldheer may not be available, not to mention Beedles, Asamoah and Schwartz. Not sure how we can replace at least 4 O-lineman without some free agency and this made it much tougher. The extra money could allow us to re-sign Starks though so maybe we won't have to focus on drafting a DT for his replacement.
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Actually, for all intents and purposes, it does.

Interested teams will now have more money to throw at FA's, so their contract offers will go up.
 
Bumpus said:
Actually, for all intents and purposes, it does.

Interested teams will now have more money to throw at FA's, so their contract offers will go up.
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Well then let them. They'll be in the same situation that New Orleans and Dallas were before they got this pleasant surprise. Mismanagement of their cap space is not a reason for us to up the offer.
 
datruth55 said:
Just because there's more money available doesn't increase a players value. If he wants $9 mil a year then he can walk. We can sign two veterans for that price and improve our depth.

The greater concern for me is how many O-lineman, that fit the scheme, are now going to be available. As someone mentioned Collins, Monroe and Veldheer may not be available, not to mention Beedles, Asamoah and Schwartz. Not sure how we can replace at least 4 O-lineman without some free agency and this made it much tougher. The extra money could allow us to re-sign Starks though so maybe we won't have to focus on drafting a DT for his replacement.
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It will lead to higher demands because some other team is going to be able to pay them that might not have before: Supply and demand.
 
Think this just means Free Agents just became more expensive is all. Somebody is going to throw more money at these guys and keep them from signing with former teams if they really want them. Then that will trend.
 
Zounds said:
The only deal that can change is the Directv one. The CBS/NBC/FOX/ESPN deals are all done for the foreseeable future. $20M seems like a lot.
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The main TV deals are done but, that revenue has not yet filtered down to the cap. A 40% increase vs a 5% cap increase is far from done.

$20M does seem like a lot, and it may be less. I posted that this yea's cap would go up by at least $5M, with the media saying it would remain the same. Blind squirrel gets a acorn. lol I will say that next year will jump by at least $15M and I think $20M is a very distinct possibility.
 
Southbeach 2 said:
The main TV deals are done but, that revenue has not yet filtered down to the cap. A 40% increase vs a 5% cap increase is far from done.

$20M does seem like a lot, and it may be less. I posted that this yea's cap would go up by at least $5M, with the media saying it would remain the same. Blind squirrel gets a acorn. lol I will say that next year will jump by at least $15M and I think $20M is a very distinct possibility.
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I have 1000 vCash on the under of $15M....heck I'll even go as low as $10M.
 
It is all relative and not a big deal. Do all other teams have more money to throw around? Sure, but so do we. EVERY team will have more money. There may possibly be fewer free agents, but I don't think it will have a large effect.
 
tthorpe13 said:
It is all relative and not a big deal. Do all other teams have more money to throw around? Sure, but so do we. EVERY team will have more money. There may possibly be fewer free agents, but I don't think it will have a large effect.
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An increase of $2-3M over what teams already thought they had to work with this year is chump change in the NFL. What could a team get for that?
 
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