The NFL Sends Confusing Messages in Salary Cap Penalties

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:12 pm

Schefter Tweet:

NFL is taking away millions of dolllar of salary-cap space from Cowboys and Redskins for how they front-loaded deals during uncapped year.

DarthMonk

Skeletor · Post by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:14 pm

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.

from Adam Shefter...

cowboykillerzRGiii · Post by **cowboykillerzRGiii** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:18 pm

Can we fight it? What exactly did we do? Sob

Smithian · Post by **Smithian** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:19 pm

$36 million? Wow. Just wow.

Skeletor · Post by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:21 pm

I would think the majority of that was the Haynesworth bonus...

spudstr04 · Post by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:21 pm

http://www.realredskins.com/rich-tandle ... space.html

HOLY
How can they legally do this? If it was an uncapped year, why couldn't we do what we wanted with our salaries?

My guess would be that they save most of that 36 million hit for next season.

emoses14 · Post by **emoses14** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:23 pm

Without knowing more, this is absolute horse

Mississippiskinsfan2 · Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:23 pm

Wow!! This is what you get for being smarter than the rest of the NFL???

spudstr04 · Post by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:25 pm

Well, if you look at it. If we split it 50/50 between the next two seasons, that's 18 million.

We are supposedly about 40 million under the cap, so that still leaves us with over 20 million dollars to spend.

Plus, we could cut more players to make more room before tomorrow @ 4PM

Skeletor · Post by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:29 pm

This would have been nice to know before we made the big trade. No we have no draft picks or salary cap space.

Also we just released Mike Sellers

spudstr04 · Post by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:30 pm

Skeletor wrote:This would have been nice to know before we made the big trade. No we have no draft picks or salary cap space.

Also we just released Mike Sellers

We can split it up between two seasons, it's not all gloom and doom yet.

spudstr04 · Post by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:31 pm

Also, players might restructure their deals.

Skeletor · Post by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:35 pm

That's all true, but we suddenly lost a lot of maneuvering room

The Hogster · Post by **The Hogster** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:37 pm

If I'm Snyder, my legal team is already preparing an appeal. This is absolute BS!! :evil:

We got totally screwed by Fat Albert. Finally get to trade up for a Franchise QB, and Goodell and his goons do this?

The purpose of the uncapped year was so that teams could spend what they want. So why punish them retroactively??

BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLhttp://dc.sbnation.com/washington-redskins/2012/3/12/2865297/nfl-takes-36-million-in-cap-space-away-from-redskins-according-to

riggofan · Post by **riggofan** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:39 pm

Wow that sucks. I don't understand why we're being punished for this. How was this "cheating"?

patjam77 · Post by **patjam77** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:40 pm

I don't believe this BS for a second.

cowboykillerzRGiii · Post by **cowboykillerzRGiii** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:43 pm

And we didn't even go crazy last year.. in actuality don't we have more roll over + the cap space totaling ~80 million?
Paging 1sniksder

CanesSkins26 · Post by **CanesSkins26** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:43 pm

From Pro football Talk:

[T]he NFL instructed teams not to use the uncapped years as a way to dump money in order to ensure that cap numbers in years with a salary cap would be lower.

If the NFL did in fact let teams know about this then we have the most incompetent front office in the entire league.

skinsfan#33 · Post by **skinsfan#33** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:44 pm

WTF. All of these moves were APPROVED by the NFL! We sent modified contacts to the NFL, they approved them, and NOW the moves aren't OK!

skinsfan#33 · Post by **skinsfan#33** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:46 pm

CanesSkins26 wrote:From Pro football Talk:

[T]he NFL instructed teams not to use the uncapped years as a way to dump money in order to ensure that cap numbers in years with a salary cap would be lower.

If the NFL did in fact let teams know about this then we have the most incompetent front office in the entire league.

That is why they had to send contracts to the league for approval! They signed off on then do they were OK with the NFL at one time.

MDSKINSFAN · Post by **MDSKINSFAN** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:47 pm

Man I hope this can get appealed.

The Hogster · Post by **The Hogster** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:47 pm

This is beyond lame. Play within the rules and still get killed??

Kilmer72 · Post by **Kilmer72** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:50 pm

Just out of curiosity how much cap space did the Cowboys have?

CanesSkins26 · Post by **CanesSkins26** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:50 pm

Andrew Brandt reporting it was the Haynesworth and Hall contracts that resulted in the penalty.

SkinsJock · Post by **SkinsJock** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:06 pm

CanesSkins26 wrote:From Pro football Talk:
The NFL instructed teams not to use the uncapped years as a way to dump money in order to ensure that cap numbers in years with a salary cap would be lower.
If the NFL did in fact let teams know about this, then we have the most incompetent front office in the entire league.

HOPEFULLY - IF this is true, Snyder will fire the FO and bring in somebody that knows how to manage this franchise

OR

bring back Cerrato :twisted:

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The NFL Sends Confusing Messages in Salary Cap Penalties

Losing Cap Space!!??