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Squirrel

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sml1950 Newbie

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In 2014 all the new TV contracts will increase by more than 60%. Since this is approx. 2/3 of total revenue and is shared approx. 50/50 , the cap should increase in the 20% range or $25 million.

The benefit for the Panthers this year is that there will be around 600 FAs without any meaningful cap increase. Most likely the A FAs will get big bucks and go fast , the rest may have to settle for 1year contracts which we should be able to compete for.

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Ruff Newbie

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I see Wharton, Smitty, Davis, and Mare restructuring contracts. Who'd I missed?

We $5m over. After we restructure few people we should be about 10-15m under. 5m on rookies an 10m on FAs.

The last time I checked, we were -2.8m the current cap, and the new league year's cap is supposed to be the same, and we can move that -2.8m over from this year's cap to next year's, where we will be -2.8.

So, we're actually -5.6m, not 5m over.

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Marguide Newbie

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The last time I checked, we were -2.8m the current cap, and the new league year's cap is supposed to be the same, and we can move that -2.8m over from this year's cap to next year's, where we will be -2.8.

So, we're actually -5.6m, not 5m over.

You really can't look at it that way. Yes, we get to carryover a 2.8m credit, but the 2012 contract terms are different than the 2011 contract terms, so we don't go into 2012 with the same cap number we had in 2011.

For example, a player may have had a cap number of $4m in 2011, but may have a cap number of $5m in 2012, as contracts are structured differently for each year (i.e. front loading and back loading).

Add in the fact that the NFL doesn't even have a final cap number for 2012 yet, and we are left with an unknown. All we know is we have that carryover working to our benefit.

I assume we haven't seen more cuts/restructures yet because teams want to wait to see what the final cap number is first.

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It's been reported that Carolina is as much as 9 million over the cap for the upcoming season. The cap was expected to stay the same, the league sent out memo's to the teams telling them as much back in October. It may increase by a slight margin, but nothing significant, like maybe from 120 to 125 or so. I wouldn't expect anything over that if at all.

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