Good/Bad News for a Change - 2013 18MM cap penalty probably (not) going away

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

the players union should get behind it to remove as much as possible. Shit they know we gonna spend that money

The NFLPA doesnt really care much tbh. Since the cap went down a decent amount due to the CBA, one thing the NFLPA did get right is in the first two years of the current CBA, the NFL reimburses the players any money spent under a salary floor. It is not an individual team floor that we normally see but a floor league wide. I could be wrong, but I believe that number is in the high 90% in terms of percentage of the salary cap that the owners are responsible for reimbursing to the NFLPA if they spend lower than that.

Basically the players get paid regardless of whether the owners go real cheap when there is no individual team cap floor (which I think starts in season 3 of the current CBA).

Editing to add: Now that I think about it, they pulled extra money from when the future TV contracts go into effect to make up for the lost cap space due to the CBA. I doubt the NFL is going to agree to extend that clause about total money to the money pulled forward. With the extra cap space created by that, that may make that clause somewhat obsolete due to enough being already paid to go over that clause amount. So any extra... 5 or 10 mil or whatever... spent by the skins will be over and above that clause. Meaning it adds to what the players make this year. Then the NFLPA would be on board im sure.