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No Hard Cap for this year and next ? **rumor**

Kurb

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I heard that there could be a couple of exemptions that woudl allow teams to spend up to about $130M for this year and next.

Read some of the same articles.

Also a few speculations this would be allowances for "their" free agents.

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They could but...

We lack a big enough market to sustain them. Other bigger revenue teams wouldn't. Clearly this gives some teams an advantage and that is obviously the biggest clue NOT to support this. They should just raise the ceiling if they must, teams don't HAVE to spend everything.

Who wants to see the Cowboys become even more popular?

It only gives 3, maybe 4 teams an advantage.

Dallas, Washington, NE and maybe Houston.

Thing is based on revenue, the gap between Houston (4th in revenue) and Carolina (12th in revenue) is around 25 million in revenue over 16 games.

Carolina could be in the thick of things if Jerry wanted to be.

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I heard that there could be a couple of exemptions that woudl allow teams to spend up to about $130M for this year and next.

Right now publicly known there is one exemption worth 3 million dollars. There could be a few other similar exceptions that aren't announced yet that are included in the CBA for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. After that the cap would act as normal.

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They could but...

We lack a big enough market to sustain them. Other bigger revenue teams wouldn't. Clearly this gives some teams an advantage and that is obviously the biggest clue NOT to support this. They should just raise the ceiling if they must, teams don't HAVE to spend everything.

Who wants to see the Cowboys become even more popular?

I think they're plenty of players around the NFL that realize the risk of going to a team like the cowboys. I feel that a good number of players will want to stay with the smaller market teams for personal reasons. It's not like t.o., romo, williams, and others ever got a ring in dallas. Half of those big name dudes are "entertainers" anyways. Let them get overpaid to enterain somewhere else. To me, there is nothing mire entertaining than a locker room cancer spreading in another city.

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It only gives 3, maybe 4 teams an advantage.

Dallas, Washington, NE and maybe Houston.

Thing is based on revenue, the gap between Houston (4th in revenue) and Carolina (12th in revenue) is around 25 million in revenue over 16 games.

Carolina could be in the thick of things if Jerry wanted to be.

that is the key....Jerry just began a youth movement with his organization so him being aggressive going after old vets wouldn't jive with what he has set out to do.

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I really wish that I could insert a smiley of my face right now... One look says it all... I just want this poo to end so that the pandemonium can begin... I can almost taste it right now...

I'm just ready for the speculation of the past 5 months to end....

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If it's just for a year or two, it's probably just designed to give some clubs time to get their cap in order. It won't really allow teams to go hog wild and sign whoever they please, they'd still have to pay the piper once this grace period is over. Basically, with no real off-season or CBA, teams didn't know what they needed to do in order to get in compliance with the salary cap, and there will be no time once this thing gets worked out to figure it out then. So this will just put off that mess until it can be dealt with later.

As for Jerry, as a leader, he was trying to set the example of how the league wanted teams to prepare for the lockout. Also, I do think he genuinely wasn't happy with the way Fox stuck with veterans without giving some of the younger guys a chance to see what they have.

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