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Daseal:

Owners don't get to "expand the salary cap". This is not a number they pull out of their ass once a year. It is derived from a formula that is contained n the Collective Bargaining Agreement. When revenues go up, the salary cap goes up. If revenues ever went down, the salary cap would go down...

Imagine the panic on some teams if next year's salary cap dropped from $80.5M to $75M. Highly unlikely, but not impossible. In GM offices around the league, only the people doing their laundry would know for sure...



Phinehas:

For the league to impose a "coaching cap" it is going to take a couple of teams going so far overboard that it becomes a cry from about 25 other owners for a cap I don't think we're anywhere near that yet. Even though Gregg Williams will earn 80% more this year as a DC than he did last year as a head coach, I don't think there is any momentum around the league for a "coaching cap".



Ghost:

It was reported that an "owner" told Peyton Manning at the super Bowl that if he became a free agent the owner would give him a $40M signing bonus. Of course that story had to be repudiated by Manning and everyone else or that would have been tampering since he was still under contract to the Colts at the time. 80% of the reorters say that it was Danny Boy who made that remark; the other 20% say it was Jerry Jones. I have no idea if that ever happened because I certainly did not hear anyone say it, but top players are going to be taking much bigger chunks of their contracts in signing bonuses for the foreseeable future.