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SantanaMan · 05-01-2005, 05:32 PM

Someone mentioned a cap on players contracts earlier - fine in theory, but you would still need a cap for total team salary, otherwise whats to stop one fo the richest teams signing 53 players at the max-contract salaries whilst a small market team could not keep up.
The salary cap is there to create parity amongst all the markets.
What I can see happening during negotiations for the new CBA is that contracts cannopt be reworked for 2, maybe 3 years from the date of signing - that way we will see less of these "one year wonders" holding out and players who have played well over those 2 or 3 years can then negotiate for better salaries. This would also mean teams could not decrease said salaries in those 2 or 3 years either.

The NFL has that program anyway where they pay bonus money to players who outperformed their contracts in a particular season.

05-01-2005, 05:32 PM	#3
SantanaMan Special Teams Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 224	Re: It's Rosenhaus Someone mentioned a cap on players contracts earlier - fine in theory, but you would still need a cap for total team salary, otherwise whats to stop one fo the richest teams signing 53 players at the max-contract salaries whilst a small market team could not keep up. The salary cap is there to create parity amongst all the markets. What I can see happening during negotiations for the new CBA is that contracts cannopt be reworked for 2, maybe 3 years from the date of signing - that way we will see less of these "one year wonders" holding out and players who have played well over those 2 or 3 years can then negotiate for better salaries. This would also mean teams could not decrease said salaries in those 2 or 3 years either. The NFL has that program anyway where they pay bonus money to players who outperformed their contracts in a particular season.