02-22-2021, 01:17 PM
Here are the rollover figures I could find dating back to 2013.
2013 - 10 million
2014 - 8.7 million
2015 - 8.7 million
2016 - 7.5 million
2017 - 6.5 mllion
2018 - 11.5 million
2019 - 7.4 million
2020 - 10.7 million
Now keep in mind, this isn't necessarily an exact amount of unused cap space. Teams can choose how much to rollover. (Ex: Team A has 15 million in unspent cap space, but has elected to rollover 10 million, leaving 5 million permenantly unusued) So from these numbers all we can tell is that these are unused, but they could be higher.
Now what I took exception with Hobson saying is that we've only left 1 million on the table in 10 years. He claimed we had spent 1.49 billion againt a total of 1.50 billion in cap space. That means we had used 99.333% of what we could have spent.
I'm sorry, there is no way this is true. I can't even find the figures prior to 2013 but I definitely remember stockpiling money in 2011 and 2012 when Andy and AJ were on rookie deals. (Remember the "Andy and AJ Fund"?)
Fwiw, I don't even have a problem with the Bengals overall spending as it relates to the cap. I may fault how they choose to spend it, but I don't fault the total dollars invested. Ever since the floor requirements came to be I think pretty much all teams are responsable in terms of spending. They're all withing a percentage point or two from each other.
What I do have a problem with is Hobson's blatant lies. This is just another example. You can clearly see we're leaving money on the table and kicking the can down the road with rollover (that's fine), yet he acts like we always spend everything we possible can in a given season (we don't).
It's no different than how he tricks people into believing you have to account for an exact rookie pool number to be subtratcting from spending. Thus ignoring cuts to make room for the rookies, some rookies not counting against the top 51, etc. It's no different than his "injury settlements" spiel, or any other number of garbage he spews.
This guy provides more disinofrmation than any sports writer I've ever seen . And it's a shame you need a PHD in cap space and to be a math majory to actually follow along with what we can actually spend. It shouldn't be this complicated. And it's not anywhere else. Fans just know their teams will spend what they can, do the best they can, and the numbers will somehow work out. But here, this guy does so much to create doubt and confusion that no one knows what to believe.
/rantover
2013 - 10 million
2014 - 8.7 million
2015 - 8.7 million
2016 - 7.5 million
2017 - 6.5 mllion
2018 - 11.5 million
2019 - 7.4 million
2020 - 10.7 million
Now keep in mind, this isn't necessarily an exact amount of unused cap space. Teams can choose how much to rollover. (Ex: Team A has 15 million in unspent cap space, but has elected to rollover 10 million, leaving 5 million permenantly unusued) So from these numbers all we can tell is that these are unused, but they could be higher.
Now what I took exception with Hobson saying is that we've only left 1 million on the table in 10 years. He claimed we had spent 1.49 billion againt a total of 1.50 billion in cap space. That means we had used 99.333% of what we could have spent.
I'm sorry, there is no way this is true. I can't even find the figures prior to 2013 but I definitely remember stockpiling money in 2011 and 2012 when Andy and AJ were on rookie deals. (Remember the "Andy and AJ Fund"?)
Fwiw, I don't even have a problem with the Bengals overall spending as it relates to the cap. I may fault how they choose to spend it, but I don't fault the total dollars invested. Ever since the floor requirements came to be I think pretty much all teams are responsable in terms of spending. They're all withing a percentage point or two from each other.
What I do have a problem with is Hobson's blatant lies. This is just another example. You can clearly see we're leaving money on the table and kicking the can down the road with rollover (that's fine), yet he acts like we always spend everything we possible can in a given season (we don't).
It's no different than how he tricks people into believing you have to account for an exact rookie pool number to be subtratcting from spending. Thus ignoring cuts to make room for the rookies, some rookies not counting against the top 51, etc. It's no different than his "injury settlements" spiel, or any other number of garbage he spews.
This guy provides more disinofrmation than any sports writer I've ever seen . And it's a shame you need a PHD in cap space and to be a math majory to actually follow along with what we can actually spend. It shouldn't be this complicated. And it's not anywhere else. Fans just know their teams will spend what they can, do the best they can, and the numbers will somehow work out. But here, this guy does so much to create doubt and confusion that no one knows what to believe.
/rantover
