The NFL Sends Confusing Messages in Salary Cap Penalties

by **DarthMonk** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:12 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

by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:14 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...

by **cowboykillerzRGiii** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:18 pm

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

by **Smithian** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:19 pm

$36 million? Wow. Just wow.

by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:21 pm

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

by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:21 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.

by **emoses14** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:23 pm

Without knowing more, this is absolute horse

by **Mississippiskinsfan2** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:23 pm

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

by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:25 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

by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:29 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

by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:30 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.

by **spudstr04** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:31 pm

Also, players might restructure their deals.

by **Skeletor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:35 pm

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

by **The Hogster** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:37 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

by **riggofan** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:39 pm

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

The NFL Sends Confusing Messages in Salary Cap Penalties

Losing Cap Space!!??