2009 Salary Cap (1 Viewer)

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Mark Maske

The salary cap will adjust upward to $127 million per team for next season, according to the league-owned NFL Network.

Under the labor agreement completed between the league and the players' union in 2006, there is a mechanism for the salary cap to be adjusted upward if the teams collectively fail to reach predetermined spending thresholds on players.

It is an approximately $4 million increase.

I didn't see this posted elsewhere. Apologies if it has been.

 

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Adam Schefter reporting the same.

The salary cap will grow in 2009.

Because teams didn’t spend as much as they were supposed to under the collective bargaining agreement the past three years, teams were notified Wednesday that the salary cap will increase over $4 million to $127 million for this coming year, according to sources with two NFL teams. The collective bargaining agreement calls for cap adjustment down if teams spend over the cap in cash and adjustment up if they don’t spend up to the cap.

It defies the recession and logic, but just before free agency, teams actually will have more flexibility and salary-cap room. This is tremendous news for teams such as the Colts and Panthers, who are pressed against the cap, and not such good news for teams such as the Buccaneers and Chiefs, who were way under the cap. Now their advantage is somewhat compromised.

Teams believed they would see a mild increase in the salary cap, but this is bigger than teams expected.

 

[The Man With No Name]

Don't feel like looking it up, but I think teams have to spend at least something like 86% of the salary cap on player salaries?

 

[Toxic Gatorade]

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/02/25/salary-cap...nding-for-2009/

The salary cap will grow in 2009.

Because teams didn’t spend as much as they were supposed to under the collective bargaining agreement the past three years, teams were notified Wednesday that the salary cap will increase over $4 million to $127 million for this coming year, according to sources with two NFL teams. The collective bargaining agreement calls for cap adjustment down if teams spend over the cap in cash and adjustment up if they don’t spend up to the cap.

It defies the recession and logic, but just before free agency, teams actually will have more flexibility and salary-cap room. This is tremendous news for teams such as the Colts and Panthers, who are pressed against the cap, and not such good news for teams such as the Buccaneers and Chiefs, who were way under the cap. Now their advantage is somewhat compromised.

Teams believed they would see a mild increase in the salary cap, but this is bigger than teams expected.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

As if the FA market wasn't already tipped in favor of too much money vs. too much talent.

Adding $128M to the pool is a ton of extra $.

 

[Jason Wood]

Don't feel like looking it up, but I think teams have to spend at least something like 86% of the salary cap on player salaries?

87.6% in 2009 [goes up 1.2% per year until we hit 90% of the cap]

 

[Kitrick Taylor]

As if the FA market wasn't already tipped in favor of too much money vs. too much talent.Adding $128M to the pool is a ton of extra $.

Agreed. The FA list really isn't very good anymore. With Gross, Peppers, Suggs and Asomugha off the market outside of Haynesworth, not many guys are actually worth big money. We're gonna see a lot of guys get overpaid. Again.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

As if the FA market wasn't already tipped in favor of too much money vs. too much talent.Adding $128M to the pool is a ton of extra $.

Agreed. The FA list really isn't very good anymore. With Gross, Peppers, Suggs and Asomugha off the market outside of Haynesworth, not many guys are actually worth big money. We're gonna see a lot of guys get overpaid. Again.

The smart move is for teams to (A) take care of extensions of their current players and (B) consider trading for vets who want reworked deals (a la Boldin).