http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-cap-in-2017/
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you can't look at cash spent and somehow equate it to the salary cap
that might be the most worthless thing ive seen on pft in awhile
Is it possible that some of that was last minute adjustments to contracts to use up the current year's cap money and save some of future years'? I know teams like to do that.
well, the contracts of adams and linsley were both done before the start of the new league year, so their signing bonuses would have counted under the money spent for the current year
so adams got a 18 million dollar signing bonus and linsley got 8 million
so theres 26 million in cash spent right there
I'm with red. Cash spending on any given year is not capped, so why compare it to the salary cap? The salary cap is an administrative cap and it's ambivalent toward when the money actually changes hands.
Its important for two reasons, though only one have to do with comparisons to the cap:
1. The CBA specifies certain percentage of cap has to actually be spent in cash each year.
2. Cap numbers can disappear (they can also linger as dead money). Cash spent is paying for the team you have, not the contracts you constructed.
I think PFT leaves out a few personnel maneuvers that affect cash vs. cap beyond pro-rated bonuses.
that's weird. the other day i read they rolled over $9m left over from last year.
They had about 9 mil left over until the did Adams and Linsley I believe.
https://cheeseheadtv.com/blog/the-pa...ers-are-in-144
After all was signed and done, they rolled over $3.9 million.
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/green-bay-packers/
Total Cap Liabilities: $165,319,167 Top 51: $160,120,634 ...
Team Cap Space: $16,476,151
Breakdown: Offense: $97,335,902 ... Defense: $56,978,066 ... Special Teams: $6,286,666
Packers Cap Space (24th and available Cap Space) and a comparison to all other NFL Teams :
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space