How will Mike Brown spend his extra 10 million

[muskiesfan]

Also, for all the talk of the Bengals spending over the cap, that's a technicality. I'm not using the real numbers, but I know some will ignore that and argue with me, but here's how it works.

Year 1: NFL salary cap $150m, Bengals salary cap $150m, Bengals spend $140m
Year 2: NFL salary cap $155m, Bengals salary cap $160m, Bengals spend $150m
Year 3: NFL salary cap $160m, Bengals salary cap $170m, Bengals spend $162m
Year 4: NFL salary cap $165m, Bengals salary cap $173m, Bengals spend $170m

In that example, the Bengals did spend over the NFL salary cap twice. However, their adjusted cap was already higher than the NFL's from rolling over money and not spending up to the cap. So yes, technically the Bengals can and have spent over the NFL's salary cap but it's because they didn't spend all of their cap space in previous years. Twisting it to try and make it seem as if the team is just throwing money around and going all out isn't the truth.