Cap could increase to $140M and $150M in the next 2 years

[Gabeking]

http://nfltraderumors.co/report-nfl-salary-cap-increase-140m-150m-next-two-years/

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the 2014 salary cap should come in around $133 million, which coincides with reports from Thursday.

However, Schefter adds that the salary cap is expected to rise to $140 million in 2015 and then climb to $150 million in 2016.

Could give us more wiggle room with Hardy and a Cam/Luke extension

[Jackofalltrades]

Would help us a bunch and part of the reason I'd hold off on signing Cam.

[TheRed]

I would fap all fuging day to this. Let's just say $150 million, and be done with it. Sounds reasonable to me.

[TheRumGone]

that would help but at the same time, would it be reasonable to assume the price of FA would rise as well?

[csx]

You still need to address the OL in a major way and get some receivers no matter how much you pay Hardy and Newton

[TheRed]

The price of FA is going up no matter what, unfortunately.

[tondi]

If we could manage it I would rather sign Cam before a big cap increase as it will have a very inflationary impact on QB salaries. Adding twenty million to the cap is going to help big name players more than anybody else.

[TheRumGone]

The price of FA is going up no matter what, unfortunately.

 

not really the market now is stagnant. one year cheap bandaids league wide.

 

we are a prime example of that.

[TheRumGone]

i think this would help with signing Cam and Keek though.

[TheRed]

not really the market now is stagnant. one year cheap bandaids league wide.

 

we are a prime example of that.

 

There will always be some cheap deals, but I was referring to the teams over paying for big name talent, or to retain their own players.

 

See the Jay Cutler deal. That pretty much fuged everyone over.

[TheRumGone]

There will always be some cheap deals, but I was referring to the teams over paying for big name talent, or to retain their own players.

 

See the Jay Cutler deal. That pretty much fuged everyone over.

 

yea and flacco.

 

i wonder if Cam and Keek will be demanding more because of the cap increase. It will be interesting

[panthers55]

Most of the huge contracts given to Johnson, Williams and Stewart were anticipating that beginning in 2012 the cap was going to rise to account for the new TV contract.  Unfortunately for Hurney things were flat in 2011 and 2012 and he got dumped in the process.  But everyone knew the cap was going to go up like it is beginning to do.  So there will be money to spend for players and they know that there will be more money to go around so they are going to ask for bigger contracts.  Smart GMs know this and are making contracts to account for that.  Again the guaranteed money is the much bigger issue.

 

Gettleman has said though that just because the cap is so high doesn't mean we will spend up to the limit like we did in the past.

[philp]

I understand that FA prices will naturally go up. But isn't the point to allow more room for teams to spend on everyone else, other than their one superstar QB?

[TheRed]

yea and flacco.

 

i wonder if Cam and Keek will be demanding more because of the cap increase. It will be interesting

 

I don't honestly see either of those guys literally "demanding" money. Especially Luke. Hey I could be wrong though, who knows. Cam is smart enough to know as the face of the franchise he's going to get paid, but he wants to win, and we need more pieces to do that.