Next Year bears have 121M in cap space

[Visionman]

FALSE

Signing bonus: Money earned by a player for signing his contract. Typically paid out within the first 12-18 months. Prorated against the salary cap for the life of the contract (five-season maximum). This is how the Cowboys could afford to give Dak Prescott a $66 million signing bonus this offseason. For cap purposes, Prescott's signing bonus counts for $13.2 million against the Cowboys' salary cap for each of the next five seasons (four-year contract plus 2025, a void year).

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Umm, that proves my point, not disproves it. Lol

 

[msadows]

Umm, that proves my point, not disproves it. Lol

Its prorated against the salary cap. When the player gets his signing bonus and how it counts against the cap is not the same.

It's why we we will still be "paying" danny t as a cap hit even when he isn't on the team anymore.

 

[Bust]

Woot can still make big moves this year by offering less money 1st year and paying the chunk 2nd year if Poles finds someone he really likes

 

[Rob219_CBMB]

Being an NFL GM is so easy, random ccs posters could do it!

being an CCS member is rough, motherfuckers cant see that they got POLED.

 

[Visionman]

Its prorated against the salary cap. When the player gets his signing bonus and how it counts against the cap is not the same.

It's why we we will still be "paying" danny t as a cap hit even when he isn't on the team anymore.

Do you know what the conversation is/was? It wasn’t that…

 

[msadows]

Do you know what the conversation is/was? It wasn’t that…

If you say so

 

[4THQUARTERCLUTCHLER]

Bears should go all in on your boy Mitch Trubisky. I hear he's really good now or something.

I mean we paid 10 million for Dalton I'd take Mitchell as a backup ?

 

[bufordht]

Here's the thing, why didnt we wait until we signed some FA first instead of trading mack today? if we knew we could dump salary anyways?

Cuz his 5m roster bonus is due the 3rd day of the league year. Kinda makes sense to trade him BEFORE you give him 5m.

Seriously, this isn't complicated. Wipe away the tears and look at it logically.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Cuz his 5m roster bonus is due the 3rd day of the league year. Kinda makes sense to trade him BEFORE you give him 5m.

Seriously, this isn't complicated. Wipe away the tears and look at it logically.

Nah…. It’s easier to just run around screaming “pOlez iZ A dUMmYy”!!!

 

[Bearly]

You dumb goobers do realize they can backload and use that cap # on FA's this year, right?

Go all in on armstead. Fuck it.

That's what got Mack traded for a bag of chips. Too much backloading. The other thing about next year's cap is that we still have 1/2 a roster to fill. filling that out will drastically affect the cap. The Bears likely don't currently have 30 players under contract that will make this year's 54.

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

The key for me is that the 2023 1st rounder could be top 5.

I would wait for FA to shake out and draft. Top 10 possibly, top 5 highly unlikely.

 

[msadows]

That's what got Mack traded for a bag of chips. Too much backloading. The other thing about next year's cap is that we still have 1/2 a roster to fill. filling that out will drastically affect the cap. The Bears likely don't currently have 30 players under contract that will make this year's 54.

No, what got him traded for a bag of chips is the fact he's been injured for multiple years now and has declined in performance all those years.

Not sure what this has anything to do with his backloaded contract. Every great NFL player has a backloaded contract, it isn't some magic that pace discovered.

Simply put, if mack wasn't shitty and injured the last few years he could make the most money in the NFL and some team would throw as a 1st for him.

 

[Bearly]

No, what got him traded for a bag of chips is the fact he's been injured for multiple years now and has declined in performance all those years.

Not sure what this has anything to do with his backloaded contract. Every great NFL player has a backloaded contract, it isn't some magic that pace discovered.

Simply put, if mack wasn't shitty and injured the last few years he could make the most money in the NFL and some team would throw as a 1st for him.

So a soon to be healthy Mack would have been worth his salary on this team during a rebuild with little ability to properly fill the roster around him. Got it.

Would you like to bet an over/under on sacks next year. How about 9? That's a bit over his career average.

He just fixed what caused his issues. This trade was about cap and cap alone. The bag of chips happened because we needed the cap. It's called cause and effect. Look it up.

 

[msadows]

So a soon to be healthy Mack would have been worth his salary on this team during a rebuild with little ability to properly fill the roster around him. Got it.

Would you like to bet an over/under on sacks next year. How about 9? That's a bit over his career average.

He just fixed what caused his issues. This trade was about cap and cap alone. The bag of chips happened because we needed the cap. It's called cause and effect. Look it up.

I could give a fuck less. He's no longer a bear.

 

[Bearly]

I could give a fuck less. He's no longer a bear.

Because that was the point, LOL. Nice deflection.

 

[mceownr22]

Here's the thing, why didnt we wait until we signed some FA first instead of trading mack today? if we knew we could dump salary anyways?

Respect

 

[jooo83]

Its prorated against the salary cap. When the player gets his signing bonus and how it counts against the cap is not the same.

It's why we we will still be "paying" danny t as a cap hit even when he isn't on the team anymore.

Prorating and backloading are two different things. You can backload salary. But the guaranteed portion of a contract is prorated over a negotiated period of time at a maximum of 5 years. Let's say a player signs a 5 year 100 million dollar deal with 20 million guaranted. You can backload a ton of the salary (i.e. the non guaranteed portion of the deal into the later years) but the 20 million will be prorated for salary cap purpsoes.

 

[4THQUARTERCLUTCHLER]

Does anyone have a current cap amount for 2022 after today?

 

[Omeletpants]

Will extra cap space help Fields read defenses?

 

[satchice]

Do you know what the conversation is/was? It wasn’t that…

Please explain your position on this a little more clearly, because the conversation that I read was someone said we had 121 million in cap next year but that doesn’t mean we can’t sign a player this year and back load the contract so the cat hit would effectively hit next year.

Then you replied “You can only backload salary, not the signing bonuses”. Which is factually incorrect, and everyone now agrees that signing bonuses are spread out through the life of the contract without Ramifications immediately.

I think the person you replied to original thought was we could sign a player to a 4 year contract with a base salary of 5 mil per year and a 30 mil bonus and this year would cost our cap 4 mil and the remaining 3 years could be 15 per. So essentially his idea was we could sign anyone we want to now because we have cap later.

So, exactly what did you mean by no free agent would sign here without a signing bonus?