NFL Cap going up this season.

[Matt_In_NH]

On 2/20/2025 at 3:55 PM, Jerome007 said:

Diggs counted for 31M last year. This coming year: zero. Von Miller will count for a lot less too. Some Bills are FA now. The allowed cap number really went up. So... WHY are the Bills AGAIN over the cap?

In simple terms. Because the cap number of the top 51 plus dead cap/void money adds up to more than the cap.  Spencer brown, all the  modified contracts last offseason to get space for last year and all the incentives guys got the last game of the season plus Josh MVP all add up.  

[Magox]

16 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

you think Pegula would use a free billion dollars to spend on the guarantees/bonuses on player contracts?

 

 

 

 

The total broadcast revenues will go up, but the traditional networks contract costs may not be much higher, as shown above, many are watching on the streamers.  

 

I doubt it, I don't believe he'd use the majority of those funds to finance those contracts, but at least he would have the means to do so and having the means to do it is the first step.

 

In regards to your second point, I'm not sure if I am following you.  According to Brett's thinking is that this new way of tracking viewership totals should show a truer picture of the viewership numbers and that it would most likely represent a significantly higher amount of viewers which in turn would increase the leverage for the NFL when negotiating broadcast contracts.   What he's speculating is that when it comes time to renegotiate in 2028/2029 that an entity like Netflix will come in and look to begin broadcasting what FOX/CBS currently have with their Sunday NFL deals by outbidding them, specially considering that they have a market cap of around $430 Billion which dwarfs what FOX has which is around $25 Billion and CBS who has a market cap of around $11 Billion.

 

Very likely that one of those two lose out, and I wouldn't be surprised that you see Apple make a play for the other one.

[Mr. WEO]

52 minutes ago, Magox said:

 

I doubt it, I don't believe he'd use the majority of those funds to finance those contracts, but at least he would have the means to do so and having the means to do it is the first step.

 

In regards to your second point, I'm not sure if I am following you.  According to Brett's thinking is that this new way of tracking viewership totals should show a truer picture of the viewership numbers and that it would most likely represent a significantly higher amount of viewers which in turn would increase the leverage for the NFL when negotiating broadcast contracts.   What he's speculating is that when it comes time to renegotiate in 2028/2029 that an entity like Netflix will come in and look to begin broadcasting what FOX/CBS currently have with their Sunday NFL deals by outbidding them, specially considering that they have a market cap of around $430 Billion which dwarfs what FOX has which is around $25 Billion and CBS who has a market cap of around $11 Billion.

 

Very likely that one of those two lose out, and I wouldn't be surprised that you see Apple make a play for the other one.

 

The new tracking would pick up viewers on the streaming services--the traditional network numbers would already be accurately known.  Unless Netflix/Hulu/Prime buy up all the contracts (unlikely), then there is still Disney (ABC/ESPN) and Comcast (NBC/Peacock).  

 

Much can happen in the next 3-4 years. 

[Jerome007]

On 2/23/2025 at 11:41 AM, ColoradoBills said:

I'm not sure what you are concerned about.

i am not "concerned". I find the contract not exactly safe for Brown by 2026 that's all. But at least he is paid well till 2026. And there's a reason good tackles are paid more than RBs. RBs, WRs, and of course QBs get all the recognition, but OLinemen are essential. They don't get much public fanfare, especially outside their own team fanbases, but they get the big bucks.

[HappyDays]

Officially at $279.2M:

 

 

[Captain Hindsight]

5 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Officially at $279.2M:

 

 

A salary cap of 34 million is insane to think about now. Dak Prescott makes 60 million

[MikePJ76]

52 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

A salary cap of 34 million is insane to think about now. Dak Prescott makes 60 million

speaking of dak and the cowboys,

 

I heard on the radio this morning here that The Cowboys are going to resign their DT Osa Odighizuwa to a 21 million a year deal and that Parsons is looking at a deal at 42 million a year.

 

Pretty funny.

[Steptide]

1 hour ago, HappyDays said:

Officially at $279.2M:

 

 

Man the cap in 05 was 85 mill. That just sounds crazy