Dare I Say...Rstructure Haloti Ngata's Contract?

[gabefergy]

[quote name='arnie_uk' timestamp='1340041831' post='1091010']
daniel kaplan ‏@dkaplanSBJ
IN SBJ, NFL tells teams to project flat salary caps thru 2015: 2013 ($121 mln); 2014 (122 mln) 2015 (125 mln), and then in 2016 $130 mln.

daniel kaplan ‏@dkaplanSBJ
Benefits will rise sharply though, but media deals will not spike the cap, not even a bit. Offsets from artificially higher caps in 11-13...

daniel kaplan ‏@dkaplanSBJ
...and staggering of media deals leads to almost no cap increase projection in 1st year of mega new TV deals

daniel kaplan ‏@dkaplanSBJ
If NFL projections correct, won't be until the 6th yr of new 10-yr CBA that cap exceeds level in last yr (2009) of capped year in old deal


Didnt want to go starting a new topic....
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So why is this the only media outlet to have this information? I'm not saying its wrong, but the numbers dont seem to completely add up which makes me curious.

There was an ESPN article about this topic a few months back by Clayton, but there were no definitive numbers and he only mentioned "projections"

[arnie_uk]

[quote name='gabefergy' timestamp='1340076905' post='1091184']


So why is this the only media outlet to have this information? I'm not saying its wrong, but the numbers dont seem to completely add up which makes me curious.

There was an ESPN article about this topic a few months back by Clayton, but there were no definitive numbers and he only mentioned "projections"
[/quote]its not the only one pro football had article ages ago I posted here as well. robert kraft one of the main men in deciding it has said numerous times there won't be a huge jump

[B-more Ravor]

[quote name='gabefergy' timestamp='1340076905' post='1091184']
So why is this the only media outlet to have this information? I'm not saying its wrong, but the numbers dont seem to completely add up which makes me curious.

There was an ESPN article about this topic a few months back by Clayton, but there were no definitive numbers and he only mentioned "projections"
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Sports Business Journal (SBJ) is a very reputable source. They obviously have seen internal NFL documents in which the league has advised its teams of what they expect the Cap to be. That is what SBJ is reporting and it's exactly what several owners - Kraft (NE), McNair (Hou) and Mara (NYG) - have already said publicly.

Now, the NFL's projections may be off, but the logic makes sense, they've agreed to "borrow" from future caps to pump up the 2012 and 2013 caps and the TV deal money is staggered, so it's not coming in all at once creating a huge bump.

[ellicottraven]

How dare you? lol

[scrock]

.....dont see that happening