05-24-2023, 06:39 PM
(05-24-2023, 03:48 PM)wolverine515151 Wrote: The cap will increase at 8% a year. In 3 years when we have to have Higgins, Wilson, Burrow and Chase signed it will be 282 million. That's a 58 million increase in cap space. Boyd 10 million, Williams 13 million, and Mixon 13 million will free up another 36 million.
That's a total of 94 million freed up by the time we have to have all 4 guys signed in 3 years. 1 year left Higgins and Wilson. 2 years Burrow. 3 years Chase
Lets say we even roll over some unused cap space of 16 million in 3 years. That could put the cap space at 110 million
The amount of cap space we would need for each players would be the difference between expected salary - current salary. Wilson 10 - 3 = 7 million. Higgins 20 - 4 = 16 million. Burrow 50 - 11 = 39 million Chase 30 - 8 = 22. That's an increase of 84 million we would need in 3 years.
We will have 110 million and we only need 84 million.
Your incessant whining and doom and gloom is a joke. You idiots on this bengals boards just whine about nothing. You assume we won't have the cap space when will have the cap space. Just STFU.
Burrows contract will be back loaded to alleviate cap space his first few years. We'll have the cap space from the increase in the cap every year and expensive players unloaded.
If Burrow wants a percentage of the cap I think the right percentage would be 13%. At an 8% cap increase over 10 years, in two years the cap will be 261 million. He'd make 34 million the first year of the deal. In 12 years, the 10th year of the deal, it would be be 560 million and his salary would be 72 million. His average salary would be 53 million per year over the course of the 10 year deal, but most importantly it would free up cap space the first few years and allow us to sign other players.
You make a good argument as to the cap rising. We will see larger jumps due to new TV deals and then even more with the gambling. 8% may be conservative.
Percentage of the cap is a terrible idea by Florio for the team.
