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Post by Panthers GM (Jesse) on Jun 1, 2022 15:18:04 GMT -5
Hi team, wanted to go ahead and put this up for a vote.
Presented are three options for how to handle salary cap going forward. Last offseason our cap was raised from 100M to 105M. Frank specifically has argued that rising costs of tenders and tags warrant a cap increase for players. I want to go with a simple majority on this, everyone please make your opinion known. If you have an alternative idea comment below!
1. Keep 105M cap. We can always revisit on a yearly basis, but this option is a vote for keeping the restrictions of cap space tight.
2. A one-time 5M raise to 110M next offseason to continue the yearly review process for handing out additional money.
3. A four-year extension plan set at 5M a year until the cap reaches 125M. This would gradually reduce cap space burdens on a yearly basis and, of course, we could revisit the plan once 125M is achieved.
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Post by Browns GM (Dan) on Jun 6, 2022 11:53:20 GMT -5
If we're going to do a 5m yearly increase can we just automatically pass a rule that all things related to cap (Extensions, RFA tenders, vet minimum salaries, rookie contracts, etc) are also increased by 5% a year?
The only thing that won't increase is the salary of contracted players.
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Post by Panthers GM (Jesse) on Jun 6, 2022 12:47:39 GMT -5
Dan, I hear you on that and I think it’s a valid concern. I think my personal preference as far as raising those kind of corresponding contract details would be to wait it out and approve a bulk increase when if we find extensions to be too low. For example, the QB and WR/RB prices being raised for extensions. I think that works well and from a kindergarten brain perspective I like seeing a LB with a 2 year 5M deal and immediately understanding he likely was a signed to an extension last year.
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Post by Browns GM (Dan) on Jun 8, 2022 15:03:43 GMT -5
Dan, I hear you on that and I think it’s a valid concern. I think my personal preference as far as raising those kind of corresponding contract details would be to wait it out and approve a bulk increase when if we find extensions to be too low. For example, the QB and WR/RB prices being raised for extensions. I think that works well and from a kindergarten brain perspective I like seeing a LB with a 2 year 5M deal and immediately understanding he likely was a signed to an extension last year. The extensions were increased to the level they are at now because they were too low in comparison to the cap, we have only just reached the point that people felt they were fair in comparison to a 100m cap. Raising the cap but not anything else related to cap will just mean teams gain a massive advantage with rookies, RFA tenders, extensions, etc and UFA becomes more overpriced. Obviously from a voting standpoint these sort of votes almost always pass, but we're just going to end up in a cycle of raising cap > complaining extensions are too low > raising extensions, etc > complaining UFA prices are too low > raising cap. Let's just get it over and done with in one go so teams don't get an advantage by targeting extensions/RFAs/rookies/UFA at the right point of this cycle. Just look at those teams with a top 10 QB on an extension below 10m and top RBs/WRs below 7m. |
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Jun 8, 2022 15:23:03 GMT -5
Dan has a valid concern. The extension, RFA and rookie contract price structure has been based upon historical precedence established uniquely for this league. Now I personally like the idea of an inflationary salary cap league like we see over at Legendary NFL because it adds an element of realness to the league as well as make for new types of strategies when it comes to building rosters. What I think would remedy the distortion of future salaries would be if we were to raise Extensions, RFA prices and rookie contracts by the same percentage as the overall cap increase on a yearly basis. In this case it would be a 5% increase for all those salary categories across the board. This will keep prices in line with market value, while leaving a little bit of money left over for inflationary costs.
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Post by Panthers GM (Jesse) on Jul 5, 2022 8:26:32 GMT -5
Proposition #4 has PASSED
Though I wish there were more votes on this controversial issue, the league has voted to approve 5M/year Cap increases until 125M is achieved in 2026. No accompanying % based increases are going to be automatically added, though this is something we should consider next offseason when the first cap increase goes into effect.
The cap for the 2022 season will remain 105M
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