King on an uncapped year

[Miguel]

I have thought of half a dozen. Some are convoluted. Here are the two simplest ones (not the best, just the easiest to explain.

1.a. Trade players for draft picks. As time goes on, the good teams need never lose a player to FA, their team will get better and better. The lower half of their roster will be looking better than some of the dog teams. Trade journeyman players for fifth, sixth, seventh round picks. Get a lot. Find the occasional Givens/Koppen-quality guy, and hope to snag a Brady/Dan Hampton quality guy.

FYI - As it stands right now, the Rule of Eight will apply only in 2010. We do not known what the rules will be in 2011. That said, what player signed for the 2010 season and beyond would you trade for a draft pick (s) in 2010??

Brady, Tom
Koppen, Dan
Light, Matt
Maroney, Laurence
Meriweather, Brandon
Morris, Sammy
Moss, Randy
Richardson, Mike
Thomas, Adalius
Warren, Ty
Welker, Wes.

Add to the above the 2008 and 2009 draft classes and any free agents signed between now and 2010 to a contract that covers the 2010 season.

1.b Trade for another teams UDFA that shows tremendous promise. Give up one of those sixth or seventh rounders you acquired in 1.a. for a UDFA. Not a problem with rule of 8 because you can trade for a guy you could afford to sign, and UFDAs are not expensive.

Why would a team trade an promising UDFA for a future draft pick??

2. The jaguars draft a guy in the second round. Four year contract. He turns out to be a terrific player. Should have gone in the first round, maybe a top ten pick. But he has a second round pick salary.

After two years, the Jags realize they will never afford him when he hits free agency. After two seasons, they trade him to the Patriots. Jags get a new draft pick so they get another player cheap for four years. The Patriots get a good player. Since they can afford his salary easily it does not run afoul of the rule of eight. They keep him for two years. Then, of course they can pay him what they want and can keep him forever.

Why would any team trade a player that they drafted in 2008 to the Patriots in 2010 when that player is a cap bargain???

3. (just thought of this) Rich owners lobby to allow trading cash for players. Rich teams like this because they have the cash. If there are teams that are truly cash poor, then the owners will vote in such a rule.

The owners can not change the CBA without the permission of the players. If the players see this rule as a rule that would hurt them in the future, they will not approve it.

ps And I still don't think the currect cap srules say you can move any money you didn't spend this year into a future cap year. I still think you are wrong on this one. I still think the only way to do it is with the type of tricky workaround that teams will be using for the rule of eight.

The CBA is online. If there was such a rule, anyone should be able to find it in the CBA.

Fact - teams move cap money into cap years.
Fact - The way that teams do it is in in the CBA.

(ii) At the end of a season, if performance bonuses actually earned resulted in a Team’s paying Salary in excess of the Salary Cap, then the amount by which the Team exceeded the Salary Cap as a result of such actually paid performance bonuses shall be subtracted from the Team’s Salary Cap for the next League Year.
(iii) At the end of a season, if performance bonuses previously included in a Team’s Team Salary but not actually earned exceed performance bonuses actually earned but not previously included in Team Salary, an amount shall be added to the Team’s Salary Cap for the next League Year equaling the amount, if any, by which such overage exceeds the Team’s Room under the Salary Cap at the end of a season.

http://www.nflplayers.com/user/template.aspx?fmid=181&lmid=231&pid=612&type=c

If there was a rule against moving cap space into the future, why include a mechanism for doing so in the CBA itself??