Patriot's Cash Spending...accuracy?... in the Robert Kraft Era

[IcyPatriot]

With so much talk about Robert Kraft and cash spending ....
Salary cap I got to thinking well where is the contrast going back historically ...
sure enough the information is available ... accuracy??? I separated into 2 posts. Average is 18.8 ...

Using Spotrac.com, I tracked the cash spending for every NFL team since 1994. I took averages of each year, as well as total averages across the past 29 years. This is the Patriots’ cash spending for every year since 1994 and the ranking compared to the rest of the NFL.

Year	Cash Spending ($)	Rank
1994	$6,331,250	14 of 29
1995	$8,100,000	15 of 30
1996	$2,976,000	27 of 30
1997	$4,472,900	25 of 30
1998	$12,898,000	21 of 30
1999	$15,987,538	18 of 31
2000	$16,117,200	18 of 31
2001	$23,457,280	12 of 31
2002	$16,151,979	25 of 32
2003	$31,667,200	15 of 32
2004	$30,089,805	24 of 32
2005	$42,281,974	13 of 32
2006	$71,773,352	7 of 32
2007	$62,897,710	16 of 32
2008	$59,036,644	25 of 32
2009	$63,192,060	27 of 32
2010	$84,573,858	23 of 32
2011	$112,786,859	17 of 32
2012	$123,268,910	7 of 32
2013	$101,574,859	28 of 32
2014	$128,327,017	22 of 32
2015	$156,798,730	6 of 32
2016	$139,950,857	28 of 32
2017	$179,907,374	8 of 32
2018	$178,233,398	19 of 32
2019	$202,145,339	11 of 32
2020	$164,101,399	32 of 32
2021	$234,590,342	4 of 32
2022	$207,575,618	26 of 32
2023	$194,850,812	31 of 32

Year	Cash Spending ($)	Rank

 

[IcyPatriot]

I cannot post the link for this ... converts to media but it is in the 'read more' above link.

 

[Sicilian]

Quick and dirty math: total of 18th out of 32. Middle of the pack. What I would want to know, if it's available: What is the percentage difference between the highest and lowest spending team (and between the highest and 18th)? In other words, is the difference in cash spending equivalent to multiple pro-bowl players salary per year, or closer to one additional UDFA?

 

[Clonamery]

Checkout the Reddit link for some answers.

 

[Sciz]

1. Many of those old numbers are laughably low, as in not even enough to field a team of minimum salary players.

2. Spotrac is generally fine for individual current contracts because you know that at the very least, they just stole the information. Where are they claiming to get this super old data from?

(How do we know Spotrac steals stuff? OverTheCap used to have minor errors on their site to catch Spotrac using the same incorrect info.)

3. The NFLPA has published the official cash numbers for recent seasons. The Pats were 25th this past season, not 31st. Why are Spotrac’s numbers so far off?

 

[FCB02062]

And yet the Patriots footy pajama crowd will defend Krafty Bob and anything the club does, regardless of whether it is serving bologna sandwiches at training camp lunch or taking prospective free agents to dinner at The End Zone

 

[signbabybrady]

 

[FortressX]

Wasn't Drew's second contract pretty high ?

 

[ralmat55]

It would have been far more illustrative if you had added another column showing what the salary cap was for each given year. What was spent in comparison to the cap is far more telling than their rank amongst the other “31”.

 

[Pape]

With so much talk about Robert Kraft and cash spending ....
Salary cap I got to thinking well where is the contrast going back historically ...
sure enough the information is available ... accuracy??? I separated into 2 posts. Average is 18.8 ...

Year	Cash Spending ($)	Rank
1994	$6,331,250	14 of 29
1995	$8,100,000	15 of 30
1996	$2,976,000	27 of 30
1997	$4,472,900	25 of 30
1998	$12,898,000	21 of 30
1999	$15,987,538	18 of 31
2000	$16,117,200	18 of 31
2001	$23,457,280	12 of 31
2002	$16,151,979	25 of 32
2003	$31,667,200	15 of 32
2004	$30,089,805	24 of 32
2005	$42,281,974	13 of 32
2006	$71,773,352	7 of 32
2007	$62,897,710	16 of 32
2008	$59,036,644	25 of 32
2009	$63,192,060	27 of 32
2010	$84,573,858	23 of 32
2011	$112,786,859	17 of 32
2012	$123,268,910	7 of 32
2013	$101,574,859	28 of 32
2014	$128,327,017	22 of 32
2015	$156,798,730	6 of 32
2016	$139,950,857	28 of 32
2017	$179,907,374	8 of 32
2018	$178,233,398	19 of 32
2019	$202,145,339	11 of 32
2020	$164,101,399	32 of 32
2021	$234,590,342	4 of 32
2022	$207,575,618	26 of 32
2023	$194,850,812	31 of 32

Year	Cash Spending ($)	Rank

So in 2001, Drew Blesdoe cost nearly 50% of the teams salary?

i love the post, but am dubious of the information

 

[Clonamery]

2013-2016

 

[oldrover]

 

[TheRainMaker]

Major media outlets started asking when Brady left where the money was going as the Pats were claiming they were spending money and "couldn't afford" certain players over the years.

This confirms it.