{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

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(03-26-2025, 04:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I would also be fine if they stripped most of the cap manipulation abilities away and made teams play it more straight. I don't think I would tie it to AAV though... but I wouldn't hate getting rid of void years, post-June-1 cuts, and then do something like tying restructuring base salary as a signing bonus to requiring adding at least 1 more fully guaranteed year worth no less than the franchise tag in base salary to do so so you can't just float future cap hits to un-guaranteed years.

Until they do that, though (aka almost certainly never), the Bengals need to learn how to play the cap game if they want to be real contenders for any stretch of time more than just a lucky blue moon year here or there.

The player's union would never go for it, as void years is a big way teams squeeze more guaranteed money into their contracts.. 

More likely, the league and union could agree to do away with the escrow rule, as that was put in place when a number of the teams weren't stable financially and losing money.  That would enable the cash poor teams to manipulate the cap to the same extent as the ones with more liquid cash on hand.