2019 Salary Cap - Bengals Cap Space

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#NFL A salary cap structure where teams have a QB cap and rest of team cap would be a radical idea, but I think it could work too. If rules are designed specifically to protect QBs, their pay scale can be unique too.

— Scott Kacsmar (@FO_ScottKacsmar) December 11, 2018

Interesting. I don't like it though, because it presumably means Rodgers/Brees/Ryan/etc would be hurting their team less.

The only thing that keeps the Packers/Saints from dominating the NFL year-in-year-out is that their QBs are so greedy that they are crushing the rest of their roster a bit. If you take that away by giving a salary cap to QBs and making it separate from the rest of the roster, then it's really only going to help them. It's part of why the Patriots are always winning. Brady is making $15m/yr, Rodgers is making $33.5m/yr. That means there's an extra $18.5m/yr spent on the other 52 guys for the Patriots.

Teams with crap QBs, or even mediocre/above average QBs wouldn't be helped by this. Would just make even less parity between the haves and have-nots.