03-06-2016, 03:21 PM
(03-06-2016, 01:33 PM)muskiesfan Wrote: You can keep throwing around how well the Bengals are doing by outspending the league, but those numbers are skewed. Cap space is a better year-by-year than cash spent. Why the NFL bases the floor off of cash spent is beyond me. It allows people like Mike Brown to count signing bonuses in 1 year, while saving cap space each year.
Actually it is the cap number that is skewed. A team can brag that they are using the entire $120 million cap space in a year when they are only paying the team $100 million with the other $20 million being bonus money to players that has already been paid including bonus money paid to players that are not even on the team.
So would you be happier if the Bengals were actually paying the roster less but getting credit for millions of dollars of bonuses paid to players who are not even still with the team?
