02-26-2016, 01:58 PM
(02-26-2016, 03:23 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: You dont know what you are talking about. This isnt the 90s. Read up on it. Learn something because you just dont understand it. I feel like ive tried to explain it to you 3 years in a row
Here are the numbers.
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/cap/2015/
We actually spent over what the salary cap was set at. But we had rollover. Which changes our individual cap limit. The money we didnt spend up to the adjusted cap we just rolled over for use this year. Like I said earlier if we would have been able to get extensions done with Iloka and Marvin Jones last summer that money we just rolled over to this year would have gone to them. And you wouldnt be crying about Mike Brown. But they wanted to test the market. We cant make them sign. But we had ammo to try to get them to sign.
Our front office has been running like a well oiled machine. They keep giving us playoff contenders. They just put together a 12-4 team. You sir are the one that needs to wake up.
And you'll have to continue to explain to me every year there is money leftover.
1.) Where did the rollover come from in the first place? How did we ever end up with money that was able to be rolled over to begin with? I mean, unless I'm missing something it's because we didn't to spend to cap.
2.) Do we ever plan on our actually spending it, or is a perpetual amount of cushion that will forever remain unspent?
3.) I'm way too lazy, at least right now, to go back and look at each individual years cap number (lthough I've done this in the past). But I'm 99% positive that if you were to take the salary cap in 2011 and subtract what we actuallu spent, then did the same for each year following, that you'd left with a helluva lot more than 7, 587,902.
4.) The rollover is added to the salary cap, right? Say the salary cap is 140 mil, and team A rolls over 8 mil. They can spend 148 million can they not?
You can't say we spent to cap last year if there is money leftover to roll over.
5.) No one is asking them to mortgage the future. No one is calling for them to restructure a dozen plus is existing deals to free up money now, that will hinder us later. What most people want is simply for them to spend what is available to them. Period. And the rollover money is available for them to spend. It was available last year, the year before, the year before that, and the year before that.
At some point, wouldn't you want to actually use all available resources to build the very best team you can? When a team continues to fall short, continues to make all the way to the playoffs, only to get immediately bounced, one has to wonder what difference that money would have made had it been invested into that years roster.
Who knows, maybe you add 7 million of payroll to last years team and we go 13-3 instead of 12-4, and instead of losing to Pitt with McCarron, we get a bye with Dalton returning for a home game in round 2. You can ask this question for each of those 5 one and done's. Would this team have done a better had they added more talent?
Why not finally found out? All you have to is spend what you can. Same as everyone else. Maybe, just maybe, it gives us a better chance. Crazy, right?
