Hobson - only $15 million of cap to work with?

[muskiesfan]

(02-28-2017, 11:21 AM)Au165 Wrote: I intially had an issue with it too, but after thinking about it more I can find the math. I am going to back into the math here, and honestly it does make sense if you are looking to the future. The issue is it doesn't take into account letting guys go on expiring deals and such.

I think we will need around 9 million in cap for our draft picks when taking comp picks into account. That moves us down to roughly 35 Million in cap. Assume we are pulling out our pool for resigning Eiffert and Burfict next year, you can conservatively assume they will combine for 17 Million. This takes us down to around 18 Million in cap and the difference may be them pulling out money for UDFA and such along with their "injury" pool.

I think the big discrepancy is they are all ready earmarking funds for Burfict and Eiffert which they should, but Fans don't anticipate that. Now they could save money for next year by back loading those deals, but with their injury histories I'd take the big cap hit on them next year to save you if things go south later.

Lets say the $17 million figure for Eifert and Burfict is right. They wouldn't need to set the entire $17 million aside from this year's cap. Contracts will come off the books next year and the cap will rise again. The Bengals roll over money year to year so not to spend it. They keep more than damn near every team in the league for injury pool, but barely spend any of it. It's all ways for Mike Brown to stay as cheap as possible and pocket some extra money along the way.

They're taking away ~$30 million in cap space just because. $9 million for rookies, $1 million for practice squad, and the absurd $5 million for injuries and that would leave them almost $30 million in space to use this year. Instead, they're taking out an extra $15 million for no real reason.

Honestly, how is it that 31 teams seem to work with a different salary cap than the Bengals? We seem to be the only team that receives cap money that has to at least be cut by 50% out of the gate, then subtract additional monies for ????. Our owner and GM has no desire to spend money to win.