Originally posted by okdkid:
Originally posted by Mooseman:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
The salary cap isn't a myth. It's real but it's also easy to get around. They leave a lot of loopholes that smart teams can use. Kind of like the IRS. They lowered the corporate tax rate to 21% and most big companies still don't pay anything close to that with all the loopholes. If they NFL didn't have ways to manipulate the contracts like they do then teams would be losing talent left and right.
Keep in mind you can only restructure into the future so many contracts. Lots of contracts make it difficult to do.
A good GM will only push a certain amount of monies into the future.
Look at the f**kin mess the GM for the saints has. Even without Covid they would have been 80 million over the cap.
Not if the cap rises exponentially. There is no negative impact on back loading starters. So, salary cap is not a real limiter.
**If** the cap rises. This year it didn't. Also if there's is a labor dispute between NFL and NFLPA. Etc... there are instances (rare as it is) when the cap may not rise. Thats when the negative consequences hit.
Having good players makes any teams cap rise. But not necessarily does overspending on the cap gets good players.