{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(03-26-2025, 05:26 PM)Whatever Wrote: 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.  

That's why I said "aka almost certainly never" as when they'd do that.

The escrow rule going away would mean the ones with more liquid cash would then just move to larger signing bonuses and down that road is eventually fully-guaranteed contracts, which does NOT benefit fans.

I just want the cap to be more of an actual hard cap like it used to be because right now with void years and the such it's acting a bit more like a soft cap... obviously not quite MLB soft cap, but even without going that far it still isn't good for league parity.