An updated look at our cap, and where we are spending it

[Rocky Davis]

That feeling when Pat Elflein and Ian Thomas are top 10 salaries on your team.

Edited March 11, 2023 by Rocky Davis

[TheBigKat]

I am fine with CMC / DJ, there was draft haul for them

Chosen should have NEVER been resigned when he had 1 year left on his original deal

[shaq]

6 hours ago, Aussie Tank said:

Shultz, ARob and Chark would give our rookie plenty of outlets 

Want nothin to do with Arob

[Htarnation4.0]

So I literally cannot keep up with the cap thing, so could someone help me out with what our cap space will look like next year? Cap only seems to matter with the Panthers btw. Every other franchise, particularly the Saints, always seem to have money to throw around.

[Evil Hurney]

1 hour ago, Htarnation4.0 said:

So I literally cannot keep up with the cap thing, so could someone help me out with what our cap space will look like next year? Cap only seems to matter with the Panthers btw. Every other franchise, particularly the Saints, always seem to have money to throw around.

Since cap from future years can essentially be used in the current year, I find it more informative to look at a teams 3 year projected cap space to understand a teams cap health.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2025/

A good example of this is the Saints who are already -$91M over the projected cap for 2024. Since there is no penalty for being over the cap in future seasons they can just wait until March of 2024 to pay that bill off with the 2025 and 2026 credit cards.

As of this writing, the Panthers have 8th most cap space to spend over the next 3 seasons. Once Burns is extended the long term cap space will go down a bit.

Edited March 12, 2023 by Evil Hurney

[Evil Hurney]

19 hours ago, Basbear said:

Form teddy to paradis to CMC to anderson to reddick. They have average 50 fuccccking miilion each year. That must be the NFL record over 3 years, Id bet green cash it is.

Awful finessererererererrrrrr.

Where are alllll those "restructure" is totally fine peeps, SPEAK UP!!!

Here is a summary of historical dead cap usage as far back as OTC had it:

These numbers are being reported as a percentage of the base salary cap for that season.

As far as 3 year spans go, the highest average dead cap pct goes to:

1) Panthers from 2020-2022
2) Eagles from 2020-2022
3) Texans from 2020-2022
4) Saints from 2015-2017
5) Bills from 2016-2018

Regarding the restructures, they largely aren't a problem. The team trades roster flexibility for financial flexibility in the current season. This works out fine as long as they don't plan to cut (or in the case of DJ, trade) the player that season. They purposely didn't restructure DJ since he was part of trade talks.

Over the life of the contract the team still ends up accruing the same cap hit . It just "looks" bad because most of the cap hit comes at the end. (2,4,24 instead of 9,10,11).

[Basbear]

6 minutes ago, Evil Hurney said:

Here is a summary of historical dead cap usage as far back as OTC had it:

These numbers are being reported as a percentage of the base salary cap for that season.

As far as 3 year spans go, the highest average dead cap pct goes to:

1) Panthers from 2020-2022
2) Eagles from 2020-2022
3) Texans from 2020-2022
4) Saints from 2015-2017
5) Bills from 2016-2018

Regarding the restructures, they largely aren't a problem. The team trades roster flexibility for financial flexibility in the current season. This works out fine as long as they don't plan to cut (or in the case of DJ, trade) the player that season. They purposely didn't restructure DJ since he was part of trade talks.

Over the life of the contract the team still ends up accruing the same cap hit . It just "looks" bad because most of the cap hit comes at the end. (2,4,24 instead of 9,10,11).

Thanks, bro!!

Lots of work in this and I always like when my wild claims end up being true!