03-21-2022, 05:05 PM
(03-21-2022, 04:29 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Once you push cap space down the road you are locked into the original cap. It is impossible to keep going over the cap every year. Eventually you would end up with zero cap space.
If the cap is 200 million and you sign 250 million worth of contracts then next year you only have 150 cap space. If you then go back to the 200 million cap you can keep pushing 50 down the road.
But if you go over the 200 cap and sign another 250 then the next year you only have 100 in cap space.
So you either have to work under the cap at some point or else you will eventually have zero cap space.
The cap will go up some every year, but the theory still applies. You can spend over the cap one year and continually push it down the road, but you can't continually spend over the cap and push more and more down the road.
No? Like I don't even know where to start with this but pretty much everything here is wrong. For instance you can never go over the cap in terms of cap accounting. You can however spend over the cap in cash and you can, and many teams do, every year. The proration of signing bonuses allow for things like void years to exist and there is no degradation of cap space to 0 doing such because dead cap is taken in a single year than the cap space is re allocated back. Using restructures and void years along with the proration mechanic of signing bonus you can keep this up forever through proper planning (see Saints).
If you took a $50 Million dollar dead cap hit this year, assuming you didn't take a NEW $50 million hit next year (After this year's fell off) PLUS additional dead cap beyond the new $50 million you would not have a falling allotment as you say above. It's not about pushing more and more out it's about pushing the same amount forward and forward as needed via different players and deals, like a Ponzi scheme.
