Comments on: Uncapped year could be coming back to haunt some teams http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Sun, 19 May 2013 23:40:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: natswizskincap http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628544 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:56:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628544 Amazing that teams can be punished for breaking an arms-length rule at best. Fidel Goodell!!!

]]> By: spinmovr http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628484 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:44:27 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628484 Usually, it doesn’t matter how half-assed a story is on this site, but this one could use some more exposition. Journalism would be so handy here so we could have some answers to:

What does the term “dump salary” mean in the context of an uncapped salary year?

What did it mean to not have a salary cap in 2010?

Why exactly are team’s being penalized in March 2012?

Go ahead and handle those questions and tell a real story. We’ll wait.

]]> By: dietrich43 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628379 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:28:16 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628379 Unless the NFL plans to punish teams that wouldn’t have meet the salary floor, how do you punish the Deadskins and Crygirls for this?

]]> By: chiadam http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628364 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:25:51 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628364 Good. The cap exists to level the playing field and give us a better product to watch. Unfortunately, the cap has practically no teeth. It’s too easily skirted, and now teams will pay the price for trying to skirt it by loading up in an uncapped year.

]]> By: jakek2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628274 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:16:29 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628274 Cheating millions off the cap is not as bad as a dopey bounty system??? One affects the integrity of the game and the other rewards conduct that players are basically required to perform. This society is whack.

]]> By: sschmiggles http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628236 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:09:19 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628236 nikkodawg says:
Mar 12, 2012 2:23 PM
Who gives a damn what the NFL instructed teams to do as long as they did not violate any official rules.
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Guess it depends on your definition of “rule,” doesn’t it?

The Pats were docked a first round pick in large part because Goodell sent a memo out before the year started telling every team not to have cameras on the sidelines. The Jets had been caught doing the same thing the year before. No punishment for them.

Funny how the anti-Pats fans only point these things out when it’s convenient for their team.

]]> By: 19ghost91 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628235 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:09:13 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628235 The problem was using large base salary numbers instead of large signing bonuses. Signing bonuses would have been spread over the entire deal hitting the cap each year. No biggie. Extremely large base salaries in an uncapped year only count that year and was done purely to circumvent future cap. Teams were told not to do this.

]]> By: granadafan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628184 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:00:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628184 The NFC South and East is starting to look like the SEC of the NFL, always cheating.

]]> By: mullman7675 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628100 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:45:56 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628100 That’s what happens when you give Rog the middle finger. Not smart knowing how heavy handed the commish can be.

]]> By: cowboyhater http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628028 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:37:06 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628028 Let the Goddell agenda begin against Dan Snyder. They will get penalized for paying Fat Albert, and getting his lazy arce off their roster?!!
If this is the case, then the players that were paid out should be ordered to return the money. The fans of Washington continued to get crapped on by having to deal with mismanagement of the organization.

]]> By: tedmurph http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628020 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:36:14 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628020 Just saw the next headline, whoops.

]]> By: tedmurph http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1628011 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:34:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1628011 These teams should be punished. It’s not so much what teams spent in the uncapped year, it’s how they used the uncapped year to dump money from bad contracts during cap years or to save $ for subsequent cap yrs. This gave teams with bad contracts a way out of cap problems, or allowed teams to sign guys they normally couldn’t afford. This gives those teams a small competitive advantage. The uncapped year was an anomaly, and the league had to try to keep ‘business as usual’ as best they could. Doubt it will amount to more than a slap on the wrist, though.

]]> By: thraiderskin http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627997 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:32:41 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627997 A directive doesn’t mean squat, each franchise is seen as a seperate business. If no actual law was broken, then how is it cheating the system? I dare someone to show me in A NFL rule book where the clubs can be told how to spend money in an uncapped year.

]]> By: geemoney713 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627989 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:31:46 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627989 This is infuriating. No way the skins would have made that blockbuster trade if they knew they didn’t have 30-40 million of cap space! I bet they have to pull out on the deal for RG3 if this is the case, because they’d absolutely lose the ability to address needs through free agency if this is the case.

It’s truly embarrassing the way the NFL is run.

]]> By: mrconnors http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627975 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:29:34 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627975 Only NxSteven would try and make this about the Patriots. We’re talking about the Redskins and Cowboys here, nimrod.

I’m surprised Bozosforall and Thatobnoxiousguy haven’t chimed in, all 3 stooges.

]]> By: push4souls http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627970 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:28:52 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627970 this is bologna.

If Dallas wants to appeal this they will win. There were no procedures in place during the uncapped year.

Teams were left to sign players at their own terms. If they were not collusion would be the definition.

Its not our fault that they were smarter than other teams. Plus why only is this being talked about this year?

Why not last year. I can see fines for the teams. But to take away cap space is cheating the players also.

I am sure the NFLPA will fight this.

]]> By: erod22 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627960 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:26:19 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627960 Stupid. Then why call it an uncapped year?

How do you determine what each teams’ intent was and dole out punishment based on a whim?

And we find out about this the day before free agency?

]]> By: bearsSTH http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627955 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:25:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627955 Found this old article…..

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/19/team-by-team-salary-cap-numbers-if-there-were-a-salary-cap/

Maybe the comparison choice of Mile Austin over Julius Peppers had more to do with the Cowboys having a salary number of $166M in 2010 vs the Bears $131M.

Looks like the Redskins and Cowboys would be the most guilty of exploiting the system. Still not sure how or why they would enforce any penalty.

]]> By: russrpm http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627933 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:19:54 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627933 Everyone want to call Jerry Jones the new Al Davis. Well, you’re about to find out if everyone is right. If the league goes ahead with this, I can see the Cowboys, as well as Washington, headed to court before the next business day, and they will probably win.

]]> By: roamingabriel http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627927 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:18:28 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627927 Cowboys lose $10 million in cap space, Redskins lose $36 million in space. Can split it over 2012 and 2013 any way they want. More at ESPN.

]]> By: cali49er707 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627925 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:17:25 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627925 at least when we were doing this SHHH we were competeing for & winning superbowls, what are these teams excuses???

]]> By: roamingabriel http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627920 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:15:49 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627920 The Cowpies cheated?

No way!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: descendency http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627906 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:13:40 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627906 If they are 32 separate businesses, how is that a legal act? Isn’t the NFL ordering teams not to spend over a certain amount a form of collusion?

I’m just curious, because I can see the NFLPA having a stroke over this.

]]> By: cags777 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627903 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:13:01 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627903 So does this mean that the Redskins are out of the running for Vincent Jackson?

]]> By: marcinhouston http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627899 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:12:22 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627899 $17 mil is not enough incentive to get an unfair advantage on the field, only $15 hundred.

]]> By: kriswd40 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627889 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:11:02 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627889 How can you punish teams for spending over a salary cap when a salary cap didn’t exist?

]]> By: zeke2517 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627873 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:07:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627873 So… there wasn’t a salary cap, but if the league thinks that a team spent too much, then that’s bad. Genius.

Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of Football.

]]> By: jdandcoke http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627871 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:07:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627871 the boys and skins both looking at possible league sanctions? does it get any better for a giants fan?

]]> By: dirtydrynn27 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627868 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:05:39 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627868 Before anybody starts bashing the Redskins,Be advised to the fact that they are 45 to 48 million UNDER THE SALARY CAP!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: kjcmeb http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/uncapped-year-could-be-coming-back-to-haunt-some-teams/#comment-1627863 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:04:43 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=376312#comment-1627863 interesting to site Miles Austin’s deal……why not use the Peppers deal which had a $35M cap hit (if there was a cap)?

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