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Originally Posted by Pocono

I think we have to agree to work from the same CBA.

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(ii) Acceleration.

(1) For any player removed from the Team’s roster on or before June 1, any unamortized signing bonus amounts will be included in Team Salary for such League Year. If such acceleration puts a Team over the Salary Cap, the Team will have seven days to conform with the Salary Cap, but may not sign any players until there is Room to do so under the Salary Cap.

(2) For any player removed from the Team’s roster after June 1, any unamortized signing bonus amounts for future years will be included fully in Team Salary at the start of the next League Year.

* During any League Year immediately preceding an Uncapped Year, the provisions relating to acceleration of unamortized signing bonuses applicable on or before June 1 of that League Year shall apply during that League Year after June 1.

*Side Letter 11/1/95: Sec. 2

(3) In the event that a player who has had a signing bonus allocated over the years of his Player Contract is traded, or whose Contract is assigned to another team pursuant to the NFL’s waiver procedure, then such signing bonus shall be accelerated as in subsection (ii)(1) above and the assignee Team’s Team Salary will not include any portion of the signing bonus.


In the final capped year the league mandates a team must have the cap space to absorb any reached incentive. Samuels Wynn Rabach and Patten have fake incentives in their contracts that go away should a CBA extension be signed. The Eagles have about 6M of these also designed to comply with the 30% rule without actually giving the player more money.

The 109M figure does not include dead money.

I think you should read that 30% rule a few more times. All these special rules for the final capped year are designed to prevent teams from moving cap hits from the last capped year into presently uncapped years. Most of the moves teams make to get under the cap in other years are a no go in the final capped year except for simply cutting a player and even that is made harder because you can't do it after 6/1 and move the cap hit into the following year.

Well aren't you working from the assumption that the CBA will not be extended and that we will enter into this season as the so-called final uncapped year? I personally feel like the NFL will come to an agreement on the extension of the CBA. If you feel otherwise, then yes, you are right. But I'm operating under the assumption the CBA will be extended, in which case this will not be considered "the last year before an uncapped year."

The NFL still has some work to do on the CBA for sure. But I don't buy into these doomsday scenarios indicating that a CBA extension won't happen. These kind of negotiations tend to go into the 11th hour, when progress is usually made quite rapidly.