49ers 2026 Salary Cap=$42,518342 of 4/27/26 on a $340.1M adjusted salary cap

Originally posted by Hysterikal:

Originally posted by NCommand:
This will be fascinating to see how they'll all do it too and stay competitive.

The #Saints have until March 17 to get under the salary cap.

They're currently around $55 million over it.

Other teams over the cap:#Rams - $29M#Eagles $25M#Bears - $20M#Chiefs - $18M#Falcons - $11M#Packers - $5M#Giants - $5M#Vikings - $1M#Bucs - $400,00

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) March 10, 2021

Meanwhile the Rams are working on deals for Zach Ertz

So, you're telling me that the Rams offseason will be able to be summarized by this one sentence???

Stafford's Ball, Zach Ertz.

Say it out lout everyone.

Falcons 18M over with a horrible roster Who tf are they paying besides Julio and Ryan.

Really dumb that there was a decrease. I understand they made less money due to pandemic, but these owners are billionaires. An extra $15 mil each to at least stay at same cap would be nothing to them. Especially considering a lot of teams don't even use the full cap, so you'd just be rolling it over to the next year.

Originally posted by lamontb:
Falcons 18M over with a horrible roster Who tf are they paying besides Julio and Ryan.

Grady Jarrett and Jake Matthews each have $20+mil cap numbers.

Originally posted by a49erfan77:
Really dumb that there was a decrease. I understand they made less money due to pandemic, but these owners are billionaires. An extra $15 mil each to at least stay at same cap would be nothing to them. Especially considering a lot of teams don't even use the full cap, so you'd just be rolling it over to the next year.

Ah yes but we are talking about some greedy f**kers. Better f**k the veteran players than themselves

Originally posted by a49erfan77:
Really dumb that there was a decrease. I understand they made less money due to pandemic, but these owners are billionaires. An extra $15 mil each to at least stay at same cap would be nothing to them. Especially considering a lot of teams don't even use the full cap, so you'd just be rolling it over to the next year.

yeah well these billionaire owners didn't become billionaires by being cool guys. They will fight and scratch for a penny anywhere they can find it. It's b******t but thems the breaks

Originally posted by lamontb:
Falcons 18M over with a horrible roster Who tf are they paying besides Julio and Ryan.

They really f**ked up not winning that SB

I don't blame the owners.

Originally posted by rathman4481:
I don't blame the owners.

I don't blame the players.

Originally posted by richterkbelmont:

Originally posted by a49erfan77:
Really dumb that there was a decrease. I understand they made less money due to pandemic, but these owners are billionaires. An extra $15 mil each to at least stay at same cap would be nothing to them. Especially considering a lot of teams don't even use the full cap, so you'd just be rolling it over to the next year.

Ah yes but we are talking about some greedy f**kers. Better f**k the veteran players than themselves

I agree but most of these teams are run independent of the owners money. They often have a board that makes some of the major financial decisions. It's not always up to just one guy. They have budgets like everyone else. If you own several businesses, you don't take profits from one to prop up another. That's a recipe for disaster. You also have to keep in mind that many of these guys are billionaires on paper but they are leveraged to the hilt. They don't have huge amounts of cash sitting around. They make money by re-investing and borrowing.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

NFL salary cap this season will be $182.5 million.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2021

So much for someone in here telling me (repeatedly) that there was no way the NFL/NFLPA were going let the cap get this low 😬

If you're gonna call me out, call me out. I never said it wouldn't be this low. Never once. I said I didn't see it this low with the players not taking pay cuts or else you're going to see a heavily saturated free agent market that will lead to ridiculously cheap deals. Think about the top 50 free agents, how much APY they would command. It's more space than the league has right now, cumulative. Now think about that to get under the cap the Saints have cut:
Kwon
Sanders
Easton
Jared Cook
Josh Hill
Thomas Moorstead and still aren't done.

All those above listed teams will have to part with quality players as well.

Considering the letter Smith sent out to the NFLPA, I still think pay cuts are on the table.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by richterkbelmont:

Originally posted by a49erfan77:
Really dumb that there was a decrease. I understand they made less money due to pandemic, but these owners are billionaires. An extra $15 mil each to at least stay at same cap would be nothing to them. Especially considering a lot of teams don't even use the full cap, so you'd just be rolling it over to the next year.

Ah yes but we are talking about some greedy f**kers. Better f**k the veteran players than themselves

I agree but most of these teams are run independent of the owners money. They often have a board that makes some of the major financial decisions. It's not always up to just one guy. They have budgets like everyone else. If you own several businesses, you don't take profits from one to prop up another. That's a recipe for disaster. You also have to keep in mind that many of these guys are billionaires on paper but they are leveraged to the hilt. They don't have huge amounts of cash sitting around. They make money by re-investing and borrowing.

That's also the cost of players demanding a revenue based pay system. It was great when revenue streams were rocking, but each team just lost at least a couple hundred mil in revenue. We can say billionaire all we want, that doesn't mean these guys have billions at their disposal to use that way. That money would have to come from somewhere.

Could each owner afford 15 mil more? Sure. But why should they push more money in when they're already going way over what is contractually obligated when the players won't do the same? Why should Robert Kraft lose 60 million this year for football when Joe Thuney isn't going to take a cut of 1.5 mil? Doesn't make sense.

Saints just released Emmanuel Sanders. We could probably get him back for cheap.

Originally posted by Niners99:
Saints just released Emmanuel Sanders. We could probably get him back for cheap.

He's got Seattle Seahawks written all over him as a free agent haha

Originally posted by 49ERnation:

Originally posted by Niners99:
Saints just released Emmanuel Sanders. We could probably get him back for cheap.

He's got Seattle Seahawks written all over him as a free agent haha

lmao how many WR they need when their QB is whinning about their bad OL?