Question - How are the Skins doing this?

[jayday]

This is not a jealous post...But can someone explain...

How are they restructuring their deals for this to work? I'm not a big student of the Cap, so if anyone knows...please share...

I thought they were over the cap when FA hit? I know cutting Lavar helped, but didn't think it would be this much...

[steelerfan513]

snyder is getting ready to sell the team, and he doesn't care how much hell theyre left in when he leaves

[no1cowboysfan]

You're not the first or only person to be asking this... look in any other Skins signee thread.

No one truly knows, but if I were to guess, I'd say one of these reasons...

1) They are backloading their contracts heavily, and are trying for an SB run this year. Next season will HOPEFULLY result in more cuts than this.

2) Dan Snyder & Paul Tagliabue are gay lovers.

My money's on two.

[Crimedogg32]

im pretty sure as long as you were under the day before FA you can go over now just got to get back under before the next deadline

[steelerfan513]

You're not the first or only person to be asking this... look in any other Skins signee thread.

No one truly knows, but if I were to guess, I'd say one of these reasons...

1) They are backloading their contracts heavily, and are trying for an SB run this year. Next season will HOPEFULLY result in more cuts than this.

2) Dan Snyder & Paul Tagliabue are gay lovers.

My money's on two.

same. even backload contracts doesnt allow a team 5 mil over to sign this many key players.

[Dr. Duran Duran]

2) Dan Snyder & Paul Tagliabue are gay lovers.

My money's on two.

And when Tagliabue talked about "retirement", he means retire to Snyder's villa. Oh God, that is one ugly picture.

[flotsamnjetsam]

Honestly I have no idea how they went from having to play with 25 rookies (pre CBA) to still over the cap (after CBA) to signing multiple FA's to big contracts.

One thing that I know they've done in the past, and it seems like they are doing here, is giving the FA's huge signing bonuses. This way the salaries are spread out through the length of the contract, making the salary cap # for each year less than what it seems.

Everyone says that eventually they will be in salary cap hell, which almost happened this year when it looked like the CBA wasn't going to be renewed. This is because they will be barely under the cap when they are done. Then next year they will have to cut players or restructure contracts (or both) to get under the cap for next year.

I'm pretty sure that's what makes Snyder able to pull these FA's signings off. Not many owners are willing to give huge up front guaranteed signing bonuses to mediocre players.

Snyder has a one year plan...every year. He doesn't care about the future, unlike most owners. What he fails to understand is that you can't usually throw together new players every year and keep the team chemistry alive. Just look at the USA basketball "Dream Teams" of recent years. They throw together some of the most talented players in the world that have never played together as a team. Lately they have no chance against the countries who have been playing together as a team for a long time. Snyder might get lucky one year, but there will never be a dynasty in Washington as long as he owns the team IMO.

[eaglesrule]

well by the time it catches up with snyder, the labor deal will be up.

Everyone does the signing bonus bit, he is hardly a cap genius.

[no1cowboysfan]

2) Dan Snyder & Paul Tagliabue are gay lovers.

My money's on two.

And when Tagliabue talked about "retirement", he means retire to Snyder's villa. Oh God, that is one ugly picture.

Sorry everyone about this...

I'm terrible with Photoshop, and I didn't exactly take time with this, but the concept works...

[jh2031]

The Redskins and Snyder will pay for all these heavy backloaded contracts. They will have to go into serious cut/restructure mode in a few years. I'll give credit to Snyder for trying to bring a Super Bowl within the first few years of these deals before the team gets gutted...but couldn't he sign better players than this?

What I love about the whole guaranteed money thing is that Randle El....now has more money guaranteed than Edge and his former teammate Hines Ward. What a joke. This is why everyone outside of Washington hates Snyder.