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What are the benefits of NOT USING all of the cap space?

Yes the money can be rolled over, but with the projected increase in the next couple of years to the cap space it is almost pointless. With that said, it is always good to have space in case of cuts or in season moves.
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
This also could be the organization preparing for down the road as Tannehill is still on his rookie contract and possibly looking to carry some money forward for the next year or two so in 2016 they have money to resign him to a new contract with out killing the budget.
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This^
 
We will need to extend RT, Pouncey, and Odrick. If RT improves like we all hope his extension will cost us a chunk of money.
 
jason_taylor said:
IMO we need to sign Clay to a long term deal NOW before he becomes really good and ask for a hell of alot more , because if we dont get him signed this is just whats going to happen , and if we can give Odrick an extention , go for it but Clay for sure..
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There's a lot of things Clay needs to work on before I can say he's really good... the guy is still mostly a boundary player... we need a true seam threat... and if we draft Ebron or Jace Amaro at 19 it would look silly that we just gave Clay all this money.
 
Based on the new CBA, teams can rollover their cap space but, much more importantly, MUST spend 90% of the salary cap over a 4 year period. The rollover does not matter much in this regard. No matter how teams play it, they still have to spend the money.

I can't imagine why any team would choose to not rollover the cap space, as they have to spend it anyway, and it adds options on how and when to do it.
 
We are good shape with the cap because we gave away players for drfat picks like Vonate who would otherwise be needing contracts

This is not good business

Picks are not sure things

SPEND but on GOOD players
 
Another option is if you have leftover cap space....is to accelerate bonus payments that were pro-rated over the length of a contract. Accelerating those hits will help you over the next couple of years.

For the record, I'm not endorsing this, but I heard this just yesterday as a possibility for the Raiders who have a TON of cap space left.

Fin Fan in Cali - I agree with you on RT....need to prepare for that. But I also hear the CAP is going to increase about $9M - $10M per year over the next couple of years....which will also help in that regard.
 
I think we will be saving and rolling over contracts until we know what Tannehills demands are going to be in a couple of years
 
Southbeach 2 said:
Based on the new CBA, teams can rollover their cap space but, much more importantly, MUST spend 90% of the salary cap over a 4 year period. The rollover does not matter much in this regard. No matter how teams play it, they still have to spend the money.

I can't imagine why any team would choose to not rollover the cap space, as they have to spend it anyway, and it adds options on how and when to do it.
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Which further makes me think that we are rolling over until we get to Thill's contract demands
 
rev kev said:
We are good shape with the cap because we gave away players for drfat picks like Vonate who would otherwise be needing contracts

This is not good business

Picks are not sure things

SPEND but on GOOD players
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You have it flipped. Look at the winning teams. They are built through the draft, not free agency.
 
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