Cap will be higher than $132 million

[gowazzu02]

That makes sense. Reason I didn't think it was directly tied to revenue is the fact its been stagnent the past couple years. The nfl is making money hand over fist and I refuse to believe they aren't growing their profits year over year over year over year.

 

[cdumler7]

That makes sense. Reason I didn't think it was directly tied to revenue is the fact its been stagnent the past couple years. The nfl is making money hand over fist and I refuse to believe they aren't growing their profits year over year over year over year.

You have to remember the Cap now has been set by the new agreement that was put into place. The players got a smaller chunk of the change than the agreement before if I remember right so it took a couple of years for the Cap to catch back up with the growth so it had to stay stagnant for a couple of years. Now that things have leveled out you can expect a little more growth each year compared to just the 1-2 million like we had been seeing.

 

[Davis_Mike]

Salary Cap Could Exceed $150MM By 2016

February 28th at 9:54am CST by Luke Adams

Over the last week, we’ve heard multiple reports suggesting the NFL’s salary cap for 2014 should be higher than previously expected, perhaps in the neighborhood of $133MM. ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter confirms as much this morning, and adds that the cap is expect to continue to grow significantly over the next couple years. According to Schefter (via Twitter), the cap could exceed $140MM in 2015 and $150MM in 2016.

While these numbers are subject to change, as we’ve seen with this year’s cap, the projections represent excellent news for the league as a whole, and particularly for teams that find themselves with little long-term flexibility. The Panthers, for instance, have restructured several contracts, pushing higher cap numbers and dead money into future seasons in order to create room in 2014. If the cap is at $150MM+ in two years, those dead money totals and increasing cap numbers will be much easier for the club to swallow.

As I noted last week, substantial growth for the cap is also good news for the players, whose agents will likely point to the league’s increasing revenue when they negotiate contracts. Of course, with only a few extra million for clubs to spend, and dozens of players vying for bigger salaries, only a handful of players per team figure to benefit.

The figure for the 2014 salary cap is expected to be made official very soon, perhaps as early as today.

Watch out for those premium position salaries. They are going to get a bigger bump in the next few seasons.

Maybe now people outside the Cardinals faithful will listen when I say Fitz's 2015 cap number is not as big a deal as people like to believe.

 

[CaptainStubing]

The cap really hasn't been rising very much the last few years and its strange because its supposed to be a certain percentage of the revenues and i can't imagine their revenues have been stagnant this long.

 

[leftypower]

My opinion on him still stands. It just doesn't matter. Tony Romo sucks. Jay Cutler sucks. They still got paid because teams are stupid. QBs get overpaid like crazy, all the time. Why would Wilson be different, especially with a Super Bowl under his belt?

I always find it interesting how so many people talk about how it is a good thing when athletes get paid insane salaries and chastise owners for making insane profits. They all are grossly overpaid in my book, but yet fans keep forking out major dollars to buy the product. Face it, there is absolutely nothing that justifies multi-millions of dollars for their 'contribution' to society - other than the stupidity of fans in allowing them to get away with it (getting screwed on ticket prices, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I love sports and watch football and baseball religiously so I'm part of the problem too. But I do find it interesting that normal guys making a normal salaries throw millions of dollar numbers around like pennies. Smacks of the federal government way of thinking. ..... it's only a few trillion - the tax-payer will foot the bills for the insanity.

 

[JDM]

I always find it interesting how so many people talk about how it is a good thing when athletes get paid insane salaries and chastise owners for making insane profits. They all are grossly overpaid in my book, but yet fans keep forking out major dollars to buy the product. Face it, there is absolutely nothing that justifies multi-millions of dollars for their 'contribution' to society - other than the stupidity of fans in allowing them to get away with it (getting screwed on ticket prices, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I love sports and watch football and baseball religiously so I'm part of the problem too. But I do find it interesting that normal guys making a normal salaries throw millions of dollar numbers around like pennies. Smacks of the federal government way of thinking. ..... it's only a few trillion - the tax-payer will foot the bills for the insanity.

There is justification. People pay for it. That's all the justification needed. They are entertaining hundreds of millions of people who are willing to pay for their product.

That's not comparable to the government throwing my money away on some bullshit.

 

[JDM]

The cap really hasn't been rising very much the last few years and its strange because its supposed to be a certain percentage of the revenues and i can't imagine their revenues have been stagnant this long.

I would guess part of the deal of the drop in percentage was that until they reached the point where the cap would break even with the old one, it would be kept flat instead of substantially dropped in the short term. This would be agreeable to a decent chunk of owners in its own right (a lowered cap would cripple many of them in their ability to team build) and would be a decent concession to draw one back from the players all the same.

 

[leftypower]

There is justification. People pay for it. That's all the justification needed. They are entertaining hundreds of millions of people who are willing to pay for their product.

That's not comparable to the government throwing my money away on some bullshit.

And people pay taxes for government BS, albeit there is nothing entertaining about it. I agree we the fans are much to blame and stated that I'm one of them - but $20 million to throw or catch a football is grossly excessive period. The fact that they 'entertain' just doesn't justify that end anymore than some Hollywood jerk making a movie.
My fear in this is at some point greed will completely eliminate the little guy (can't afford it) as it seems the NFL is traveling the same road as basketball, NASCAR and baseball - yep, people still go and they pay excessively - but when will the price be too much for common folks - when players get double or triple what they get now ?

 

[JDM]

Spending on entertainment is optional. Paying taxes is not.


If the market lets them cut out the "little guy", good for them.