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medaille · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 09:45 AM by medaille.)

Good Listen on the Eagles cap strategy and more on why the cap is a myth, even more now than in the past.

Brett Kollmann

How Accountants Broke the NFL

https://youtu.be/UR9aAOiaVVE?si=RhnVtjdkve8F0a_p

Lol on the NFL copyrighting stuff.

MaroonBells · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 10:48 AM by MaroonBells.)

Everyone should watch this. So many people keep attaching real-world economic realities (the credit card metaphor) to a game that doesn't play by those rules. If you know what you're doing, and the Eagles clearly do, the chicken never really has to come home to roost at all. Sure, there are consequences, but as this video explains, those consequences can be absorbed through restructures, extensions and salary cap increases. While the cap may not be a myth, it's not rigid, it's elastic. It's got 53 dimensions of flexibility.

Bunsen82 · 07-09-2025, 11:35 AM

(07-09-2025, 09:43 AM)medaille Wrote: Good Listen on the Eagles cap strategy and more on why the cap is a myth, even more now than in the past.

Brett Kollmann

How Accountants Broke the NFL

https://youtu.be/UR9aAOiaVVE?si=RhnVtjdkve8F0a_p

Lol on the NFL copyrighting stuff.

The real thing is the Contracts. So lets look at Sam Darnold, his contract is really a 1 year 37.5 million dollar contract. $32 million signing bonus and $5.5 million for roster and workout bonus 2025. If he is on the team on the 6th day of the 2026 waiver year, he is gets an additional $17.5 million. But to me, that is not guaranteed money as its stated in the contract. The majority of the contracts anymore are 1 or 2 year contracts in reality. They can all be rewritten, readjusted. Sooner or later the dollars will have to hit the books, and they have to be cleared. Whether like in new orleans, or even here with the Vikings. The Vikings cleaned the books and now are starting to have to play games again, specifically for next year already. The advantage of a QB on a rookie contract is massive though.

purplefaithful · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 01:14 PM by purplefaithful.)

I can understand there are myriads of ways to manipulate the cap space, but it's easier with the Rook QB (as Bunsen points out) and also because the cap keeps rising.

As long as the latter holds...

I also believe there is going to be a separate QB cap one of these days.

StickierBuns · 07-09-2025, 01:09 PM

The hardest part of your cap as a successful team is always going to be the QB. You get an early window, but ultimately you want a guy that eventually makes you a dangerous team every year in the playoffs. I'd love to see JJM get the biggest contract in NFL history, that means shit is going right. But it will definitely impact the rest of the roster every year after the bag.