NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

Well, with their recent playoff history (all playoff history?), and performance during nationally televised games...they should be happy that their odds are that good?

Uber Uberest_sl said:

There is no such thing as a salary cap in football, and if you believe there is, you're naive.

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Unless they say there is no cap for a year. Then there is a cap.

Elurin_sl said:

Well, with their recent playoff history (all playoff history?), and performance during nationally televised games...they should be happy that their odds are that good?

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I'm just sayin'. The Steelers haven't even made the playoffs yet, and have better odds.

Merrith_sl said:

Unless they say there is no cap for a year. Then there is a cap.

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And if they do say there's no cap for a year and you go over it, they still punish the shit out of you

A good quick read.

The 2015 NFL salary cap explained - SBNation.com

Yes Virginia,there really is a Salary Cap..

Teams that go over their cap numbers are subject to hefty fines, cancelled contracts and/or lost draft picks. In 2012, Dallas and Washington were fined $10 million and $36 million, respectively, for exorbitant spending during the uncapped 2010 season.

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I love how they blatantly state we were fined for spending too much during an UNcapped season.

And they had the nerve to state there wasn't any collusion to keep an artificial cap in place at the same time. Mara can suck a bag of dicks. No conflict of interest there!

moontayle_sl said:

And they had the nerve to state there wasn't any collusion to keep an artificial cap in place at the same time. Mara can suck a bag of dicks. No conflict of interest there!

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Yeah from what I recall wasn't it the Bears who also spent plenty of funny money that year? But they don't play in the NFC East with Mara's Giants, so no problem.

Boykin went full Kang nog.

TCUs Boykin charged with felony assault, suspended from bowl - NFL.com

Merrith_sl said:

Yeah from what I recall wasn't it the Bears who also spent plenty of funny money that year? But they don't play in the NFC East with Mara's Giants, so no problem.

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The only other team I actually remember was the Saints, who basically had nothing happen to them.

Edit: Possibly Raiders? The Saints and Raiders didn't receive the $1.6M in additional cap space that year.

Elurin_sl said:

The only other team I actually remember was the Saints, who basically had nothing happen to them.

Edit: Possibly Raiders? The Saints and Raiders didn't receive the $1.6M in additional cap space that year.

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You might be right, I forgot they withheld the "bonus" cap space they allocated out to all the other teams. That was the price of the NFLPA signing off on the penalties in the first place, that they would spread out that money lost by Dallas and Washington to the rest of the league so that the players didn't make less than they would normally.

Wonder who'll pick him up:Bills planning to cut Mario Williams this offseason - NFL.com. He's a pretty good DE and was a beast for Buffalo his first three years here. Then Rex started doing things like dropping him into pass coverage...

a_skeleton_06_sl said:

Why keep Grigson as the Colts GM though? His draft and free agent history is truly tragic.

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Are you really questioning the owner who was more than happy to let his team tank to get Luck, fire the coach, and show their all time great QB the door?

Report is Grigson will probably be fired also. Pagano and Grigson never got along so I imagine he'll be hiring a new GM and letting that one in on the coaching search.