What exactly does the uncapped year mean?

[The Chaos Path]

I keep hearing it, but I'm not exactly sure what the result is going to be. I'm just afraid that the highest revenue teams (Patriots, Cowboys, Giants) are going to become conglomerates like the Yankees or Red Sox (which while I'm a Yankees fan, agree that it promotes an unbalanced league).

 

[MD]

It will left the salary cap and there is no revenue sharing in place like baseball. This is pretty much a foregone conclusion that next season will be uncapped and the following the owners will lock the players out. Once the salary cap is lifted, it will be all but impossible for it to be put back in place. If so, I would hope that a revenue sharing plan will be enacted to assist the smaller market teams.

This does open the door for guys like Snyder and Jones to open their wallets and drive salaries sky high. But so far, Snyder has been the biggest free agent spender while capped and has nothiing to show for it. Just paying the players exorbitant salaries does not assure victory without a solid front office and coaching staff.

My biggest concern is if it reaches a lock out, how long it will last.

 

[CedarPhin]

I hope to hell there isn't a lockout...I don't know what I'd do without the NFL on Sundays.

 

[satz]

A uncapped year does have alot of rule to play with .The top 10 grossing team cannot sign more FA then they lose and their is a tonne of restrictions.The big market teams are sure to be effected more as they cannot sign anyone.the only advantage is they can sign their own players . also, less FA as one of the stipulation is players with 5yr exp are restricted. again there are not going to be any big FA.

people talk about the salary cap but with non alot of small teams will just cut payroll even more.