Two teams lose cap space

[steelax04]

The NFL is taking away millions of dollars of salary-cap space belonging to the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins for front-loading contracts during the uncapped 2010 season, according to league sources.

The salary cap is projected to be $120.6 million in 2012, but the Cowboys will lose $10 million, while the Redskins will be docked $36 million in cap space, sources said.

Dallas and Washington can split the cap loss over the 2012 and '13 seasons in whatever form they prefer, with $1.6 million each going to 28 other NFL teams, the sources said.

The New Orleans Saints and Oakland Raiders are the only two teams that will not receive a portion of the money.

During the pre-lockout 2010 season, the collective bargaining agreement expired and the league operated without a salary cap.

According to sources, the Cowboys and Redskins took immediate cap hits during the 2010 season that normally would have been spread out over the length of the contracts, giving them an advantage that other NFL owners found unfair.

The league took an abnormally long time to release the 2012 cap number, due in part to the fact that the league was trying to decide how to handle the issues, the sources said.

According to the sources, the deductions are not termed as violations, but are part of a recent agreement the NFL and the Players Association made to raise the salary cap number while preserving benefit increases and the performance pool.



(Sounds like the Steelers will be getting an extra $1.6 million this year?)

[tony hipchest]

Originally Posted by steelax04

(Sounds like the Steelers will be getting an extra $1.6 million this year?)

you are correct (which helps us out significantly at this point).

there were rumblings that it took the league so long to release the final cap number because they were scrounging for ways to increase the cap from the low number of 120.6 mil.

this certainly explains alot (especially why the redskins traded away 2 draft picks for RGIII and quickly bowed out of the manning running)

[MasterOfPuppets]

ahahahahah ..

screw you jones and snyder...

[MasterOfPuppets]

Originally Posted by tony hipchest

you are correct (which helps us out significantly at this point).

there were rumblings that it took the league so long to release the final cap number because they were scrounging for ways to increase the cap from the low number of 120.6 mil.

this certainly explains alot (especially why the redskins traded away 2 draft picks for RGIII and quickly bowed out of the manning running)

actually i think manning told the skins to stop calling...

Appearing on SportsCenter Thursday, ESPN 980 Washington's Chris Russell said he's "hearing" free agent Peyton Manning does not want to play for the Redskins and has already informed people in the building.

"A couple of different sources inside the organization have told me that Manning's camp made it pretty clear to Redskins officials he doesn't want to come here," said Russell. "... Unless that changes—and I'm taking my sources at their word—I don't think Manning's coming to D.C."

[tony hipchest]

lol... yeah, i know. i was just trying to put a positive spin on it to try and save them some pride. theyre screwed for this year. its about time. i just wish jonestown got hit this hard. its about time this shit finally catch up to them. im just suprized robert kraft didnt think the league would turn a blind eye and get in on the shennanigans as well.

[bac151rum]

Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

ahahahahah ..

screw you jones and snyder...

Couldn't happen to a nice pair of owners.