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Originally Posted by CRT3
Read the article in the 1st post of the thread. Experts agree that they would be far from completting a new CBA based on the union wants more of the revenue pie from the owners.
Cap Hell is like what happened to Tennesee this year and Jacksonville 2 years ago. You have to purge all of your star players in order to get under the cap number for that year. And/Or you have such much dead cap money that you can not go out and sign players. I am not talking about one or 2 star players but more like 6 and above. The Redskins are actually fine for 2006, check the numbers. The trade of Coles and the cap hit this year on him leaves us with a great position for next year. With the other players such as Trotter we take a 16 mil hit on dead cap which will not be there next year. Right now we have 32 mil towards bonuses for 2006. We will have to drop one or 2 players next year. But where we would normally have to drop a mass amount of players would be in 2007. Expect in 2007 that the Redskins front load contracts with smaller bonuses and this will enable us to use the uncapped year to our advantage. I am not a lawyer or an accountant but I did go to high scool with Danny, does that count?
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Wow...I could stay in a Holiday Inn Express for a month and that wouldn't come close to going to the same High School[probably called Danny Snyder High School now] as Danny. They wanted both parties to extend the agreement early so the last capped year is tough on both the players and the teams. The % shared with the players drops 1% in 06 so what was a 5M increase in 05 would only be 3.5M in 06. Also if there's no extension by 3/1/06 they won't be able to prorate about 20M of roster bonuses in 06 and all guaranteed money in contracts after 06 will count in 06. I think the cap chart here is missing 1.5M of extra hits in 06 from restructures done with Harris Ramsey and Noble and about 5-6M of guaranteed money due to be paid after 06 which would count against the 06 cap if there is no extension.
I think the 06 total is closer to 110M than 102M and when they extend Moss and sign their draft it will be around 115M for 06. There are also incentives/escalators in contracts for Ramsey Harris Brunell and Taylor that could easily add another 5M before the start of the 06 cap year. If Ramsey stays healthy he will earn a large escalator and also earn a nice incentive for Brunell because the O will do better than last year because Brunell isn't on the field. I think it's in both parties best interest to extend before 3/1/06 but if they don't it could get real interesting for some teams in 06.