Lombardi does not mention that the $20M is only if he leads his team to a Super Bowl victory. $20M then would be a bargain. Lombardi also does not mention all but $625,000 of incentives will be considered NLTBE for this year.
Please prove an example of how the Patriots could have borrowed 2021 cap space for the 2020 season.
FYI - No matter what there would have been $6.75M of Brady's signing bonus proration on the 2020 cap.
2:19 PM Edit: All of the below extensions came AFTER the early July agreement to set the 2021 cap floor at $175M. Misread your post. Sorry about that. All of the March free agents signings came BEFORE the agreement. End of Edit.
Several of them.
Deshaun Watson
DeAndre Hopkins
Keenan Allen...
FYI - The Patriots did not decline a tender for Caleb Benonoch, Isaiah Mack, Jake Burt, and Jordan Steckler. As of now, they chose not to sign this quartet of former practice squad players to futures deals.
Cash spending does not equal cap allocation.
The main reason the Patriots have been below average in cash spending was Tom Brady.
The focus on cash spending does not provide all of the cap allocation context for a team like the Patriots who uses incentives and active roster bonuses. For...
Reminder - A second franchise tag in 2021 will be 120% of Thuney's 2020 cap number of $14.781M. $14.781M times 1.2 = $17.737M
Sources: CBA and Agent's Take: Dak Prescott tops 12 franchise tag candidates in 2021, plus each position's projected tag salary - CBSSports.com
A better source for franchise tag projections is former agent Joel Corry.
Agent's Take: Dak Prescott tops 12 franchise tag candidates in 2021, plus each position's projected tag salary - CBSSports.com
A Cannon departure from the Patriots 2021 roster will increase the Patriots cap by about $6.3M if we presume a player with a $780K salary takes his place.
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