The Redskins and Cowboys according to Adam S on 106.7 the fan are going to lose 36 milion and 10 million in cap space respectively. Allegedly this is because both teams front loaded contracts during a non cap year.
Don't contracts have to go thru the NFL offices for approval?
Godell can just go to **** if we lose that much cap space.
Don't contracts have to go thru the NFL offices for approval?
Godell can just go to **** if we lose that much cap space.
Redskins/Cowboys Cap Hit
Adam Schefter on the Redskins and Cowboys being punished for salary cap violations.
Tags: NFL Salary Cap, Adam Schefter, SportsCenterRedskins/Cowboys Cap HitThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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NFL takes millions in cap space away from Cowboys, 'Skins
By: Albert Breer | NFL Network
Published: March 12, 2012 at 3:31 PM
The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins will have considerably less to work with when free agency opens on Tuesday.
The NFL has taken away millions in salary cap space from both teams after the two NFC East clubs pushed spending into the uncapped year to save money under the cap in 2011 and '12.
The money taken from Dallas and Washington will be put back into the pool, and spread in cap space among the other clubs. Teams were warned not to spend into the uncapped year as a way of circumventing the salary cap in the future.
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