Patriots vs Eagles- Salary Cap Strategy

[CPA_MM]

Great job. Do the 18 contracts with $409M of cap assigned to void years also require more cash up front? If yes, the Pats' cap strategy might be avoiding paying out cash, not avoiding
dead cap write-offs.

No- has nothing to do with cash payments.
It is just a method to lower current cap charges.

 

[CPA_MM]

Note:
During this 5 year period, Philly made the playoffs 4 times, NE twice

Is the goal best accounting or winning?

Always winning.
Having the ability to attract $50M more in contracts helps.
Coaching, Talent evaluation, luck are probably more important.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

No- has nothing to do with cash payments.
It is just a method to lower current cap charges.

It is an indirect correlation. The large contracts typically are spread out longer to minimize the cap hits. The larger contracts also typically have more cash upfront.

 

[Huckleberry1]

How in the hell are the Falcons so cap strapped yet such a bad team lol

That’s when you are really f*cked.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

The introduction of the salary cap's initial strategy was likely a move to minimize dead money.

To be clear, the point of the salary cap was to prevent the dramatic disparities in pay seen in MLB, where two teams are spending north of $300M and two are spending less than $90M.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Side note: it's wild to me how bad the contract situation is in the NFL relative to other major league sports.

To explain why that is: according to OverTheCap.com, there are 2901 active NFL contracts as of today (yeah, that'll go down by about 600 at cutdowns). A bit more than 200 have an average value of $10M a year. Over 2000 are less than $2M a year.