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CPA_MM said:

I am an avid football fan. The salary cap fascinates me. I am trying to educate people on how screwed up the cap system is. The myth is that the salary cap levels the field between teams. If so; (Numbers from OverTheCap contact file from early September)

Why do the Eagles have eleven players making = > $10M, the Bills and Jets eight, the Dolphins seven. The Patriots only two?

If you add up the contract APY value for all the players, the Bills totaled $289M, the Jets $285M, the Dolphins $261M. The Patriots $184M. Why are the Patriots so much lower?

The reason is caused by the rules followed in spreading total contract costs to each season. Obviously, the Eagles and Patriots are doing contracts differently. The Eagles can be aggressive and use the rules to delay a dead cap day of reckoning at least six seasons, if not more. In the meantime, they can chase for the Super Bowl.

Would you rather have eleven players making $10M or more or two?

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Brady to Maye said:

I Just joined this site after being on another site for a lot for years.

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Brady to Maye said:

I Just joined this site after being on another site for a lot for years.

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HelsinkiPatsFan said:

Hi!

Greetings from Helsinki, the capital of Finland! I’ve been a Patriots fan since the 1997 Super Bowl. Naturally, following the NFL in Finland hasn’t always been the easiest thing in the early days. Back then, a local cable channel showed college football on Sunday afternoons as delayed broadcasts, and that was my first exposure to this strange sport, which is still quite a small sport in this part of the world. I saw my first Super Bowl live on TV in January 1989, when the 49ers and Bengals faced off in Super Bowl XXIII. Inspired by all of this, I also started playing American football myself, and until the age of 19 I played mostly as a linebacker. Defense is therefore my passion! Even though the sport was small in Finland, Finnish American football was on an advanced level in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

How I ended up supporting the Patriots was partly a coincidence. The NFL found its way to Finnish TV screens through various cable channels in the 1990s, beyond just the Super Bowl, mainly through magazine-style shows and weekly recaps. A few delayed game broadcasts were shown as well. In addition, various season preview magazines and sports publications like Sports Illustrated provided information. At that point, I hadn’t attached myself to any particular team.

In a country where ice hockey is the number one team sport, there was naturally awareness of the NHL too, and already from the late 1980s my favorite team there became the Boston Bruins. After all, the legend of my favorite team, Matti Hagman — the first Finnish player trained entirely in Finland to play in the NHL — wore the Boston Bruins jersey. I didn’t follow the Bruins when he played, but since the late 1980s I’ve kept an eye on the team. Cam Neely, Ray Bourque… so choosing the Boston-area NFL team to follow became quite natural in 1997 My following of the sport stepped up to a new level in the early 2000s when cable channels started showing more live regular-season games. Finally, in 2010, NFL Game Pass changed everything for good — all games became available live and as replays. And from that season onward, I have watched every Patriots game!

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One-If-By-Sea said:

Hi Helsinki Fan,

Thanks for posting. Let us know if you come to Boston some time.

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HelsinkiPatsFan said:

Hi!

Greetings from Helsinki, the capital of Finland! I’ve been a Patriots fan since the 1997 Super Bowl. Naturally, following the NFL in Finland hasn’t always been the easiest thing in the early days. Back then, a local cable channel showed college football on Sunday afternoons as delayed broadcasts, and that was my first exposure to this strange sport, which is still quite a small sport in this part of the world. I saw my first Super Bowl live on TV in January 1989, when the 49ers and Bengals faced off in Super Bowl XXIII. Inspired by all of this, I also started playing American football myself, and until the age of 19 I played mostly as a linebacker. Defense is therefore my passion! Even though the sport was small in Finland, Finnish American football was on an advanced level in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

How I ended up supporting the Patriots was partly a coincidence. The NFL found its way to Finnish TV screens through various cable channels in the 1990s, beyond just the Super Bowl, mainly through magazine-style shows and weekly recaps. A few delayed game broadcasts were shown as well. In addition, various season preview magazines and sports publications like Sports Illustrated provided information. At that point, I hadn’t attached myself to any particular team.

In a country where ice hockey is the number one team sport, there was naturally awareness of the NHL too, and already from the late 1980s my favorite team there became the Boston Bruins. After all, the legend of my favorite team, Matti Hagman — the first Finnish player trained entirely in Finland to play in the NHL — wore the Boston Bruins jersey. I didn’t follow the Bruins when he played, but since the late 1980s I’ve kept an eye on the team. Cam Neely, Ray Bourque… so choosing the Boston-area NFL team to follow became quite natural in 1997 My following of the sport stepped up to a new level in the early 2000s when cable channels started showing more live regular-season games. Finally, in 2010, NFL Game Pass changed everything for good — all games became available live and as replays. And from that season onward, I have watched every Patriots game!

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Scotty said:

Welcome to the forum , there are a few of us who are from outside the US, I am from Scotland

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