Salary Cap $255.4 million in 2024.

[IBleedBearsBlood]

Nice. Record Jump. Record Profits. Most watched Superbowl in history even . . .

Player paygrades will go up to match.

A-list QB should be getting 50+ million. WR's 30+ million. Pass Rushers 25-30 million, etc.

What is Justin worth? 45 million @zabavka ?

His worth, $15 an hour….

 

[DB012031]

@Chicago Staleys is dead on. This reduces the FA pool because teams that needed to make Salary cap cuts on EXISTING salaries might not now have to do so.

A reduction in the FA pool coupled with teams with now even more Cap space increases the bidding war. It's a good year to be a FA. It's not that teams all have more cap space that hurts the Bears, Lions, etc, it is the reduction in the FA's.

If anything, it may not change much for the sole reason that if every team is essentially getting an extra $12M over the previous projection, then FA's are going to adjust their demands accordingly. It may allow some teams to hold on to more of the "Glue Guy" type player (Mercedes Lewis for example), but lets take the Chiefs situation, maybe they now do hold onto Chris Jones, but it's going to cost them Snead, their star DB, and Willie Gay, their best or 2nd best LB (Depending on who you talk to). So it may not have that great of an impact as we think...

What the NFL is going to have to do at some point is maybe leverage some of what NBA does in terms of Max Contracts. NFL Teams need to field 53-man rosters and when the QB is now taking up 20-25% of a single season cap, a star WR taking up 10% of the cap, how are you going to be able to field a team when 4-5 players could take up 70% or more of a single season cap.

Maybe something like a Max contract cannot be more than 5 years in length and no more than 15% of the Salary Cap (based on the season the deal is signed). Or, similar to the NBA, perhaps a rule regarding how many max contracts a team can have.

 

[dabears70]

Both 32 years of age? Time is ticking for Taylor to pump out some babies . . .

Future Mr and Mrs . . . do you know the name of this Taylor Swift jam @knoxville7 ?

Thought Kelce was 34?

 

[dennehy]

@Chicago Staleys is dead on. This reduces the FA pool because teams that needed to make Salary cap cuts on EXISTING salaries might not now have to do so.

A reduction in the FA pool coupled with teams with now even more Cap space increases the bidding war. It's a good year to be a FA. It's not that teams all have more cap space that hurts the Bears, Lions, etc, it is the reduction in the FA's.

It still doesn't really matter. The amount of players that will apply to is low, and it usually doesn't apply to player who would be at the top of free agent pyramid. The bidding for free agents is intense at the top of the pyramid and then de-escalates quickly.

The basic premise of your argument is that the salary cap increasing helps teams that have less cap. It increases every year, and that has never been true before, no matter how much it incresaes.

 

[Les Grossman]

It helped every franchise above it too.

Which means, actually, it doesn't help any team. They are all in the same position, the pot is just bigger.

This. It just raises the cost of Free agents because it sets the whole market value.

 

[Runruffshod75]

Now sign one of the top 2 available DEs to pair with Sweat.

Trade back out of 9 and take a true 3 Technique and you've got a FUCKING roster, not just a roster, but a FUCKING roster that means business

 

[knoxville7]

Now sign one of the top 2 available DEs to pair with Sweat.

Trade back out of 9 and take a true 3 Technique and you've got a FUCKING roster, not just a roster, but a FUCKING roster that means business

the roster may even RUNRUFFSHOD thru da league, amirite?!

 

[DefNextYear]

What it does help is any big contracts signed prior... homerun on Sweat... fail on JJ.

 

[FozzyBear]

T Swizzle had more of an economic impact than all the Boomers who "quit watching" over the kneeling.

they still living in the past too. a knee caused millions of cases of PTSD amongst the whites.. strange reactions..

 

[FozzyBear]

https://x.com/yahoosports/status/1761086907826745401?s=4

Adjust your crappy offseason mocks accordingly.

i will adjust if you can provide total cap now afta da cuts and da increase. i cant do maths.