Roughly $4 billion

[George Cantstandya]

(4 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: No one has ever been penalized nor has anything ever been brought up about a team not putting money in escrow. It's also not an 'nfl law' that it has to be done. 

The wording in the CBA says "The NFL may require..."

Section 9. Funding of Deferred and Guaranteed Contracts: The NFL may require
that by a prescribed date certain, each Club must deposit into a segregated account the
present value, calculated using the Discount Rate, less $15,000,000 (the “Deductible”), of
deferred and guaranteed compensation owed by that Club with respect to Club funding
of Player Contracts involving deferred or guaranteed compensation; provided, however,
that with respect to guaranteed contracts, the amount of unpaid compensation for past or
future services to be included in the funding calculation shall not exceed seventy-five
(75%) percent of the total amount of the contract compensation. 

https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/website/PDFs/CBA/March-15-2020-NFL-NFLPA-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement-Final-Executed-Copy.pdf      Page 177

Yep that "may" language is what got Florio going on about but then he just seems to have abandoned the topic.

So if escrow isn't a requirement why are you on about it since it doesn't matter?  :)

(Yesterday, 12:58 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I posted the amount of guarantees for each team in the upcoming year. If an NFL owner can't escrow between 100 and 200M dollars, they shouldn't be in the NFL business.

(8 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: They only have to escrow the portion that is due that year. 

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/cincinnati-bengals
https://overthecap.com/player/joe-burrow/8741

(Yesterday, 01:50 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote:  The Bengals are in a business that requires them to put large sums of money in escrow for guarantees, just like every other NFL franchise

I'm not trying to be argumentative here.  I'm just saying from what I read the topic was brought up by a somewhat controversial writer and then I've never seen it go beyond that.  I think that would be a fairly big deal for the NFL if there was a loophole there and would be widely reported.  Or maybe it is some information us fans are not privy to.  :)

I don't know.  Perhaps as a start someone interested in the topic could look at the Packers books and see if they are putting money in to escrow for their guaranteed contracts since they are a publicly owned team.