NFL Expands cap from $120m to $123.9m

[HPF Bob]

Here's a small amount of relief for those worried about our UFAs fleeing for greener pastures. The NFL has announced that the 2013 salary cap has increased by $3 million and change (wish I had that sort of change).

I think we took some sort of one-time exemption to restructure Schaub last year but I'm not really sure about that. Our local cap experts may know more.

[Nconroe]

That extra hopefully helps keep most of our good free agents this year. Hopefully we will see some signings of our UFA soonm

[Keith]

Latest cap room from Jason LaCanfora...

Cap Space Entering This Week, according to NFL Management Council figures:

Cleveland : $47,049, 064
Miami : $45,655, 322
Cincinnati :$43,946,091
Indianapolis : $41,753,072
Philadelphia : $33,412,392
Tampa Bay : $32,716,002
Jacksonville : $26,706,365
New England : $25,314,200
Atlanta : $21,603,650
Green Bay : $20,096,654
Tennessee : $18,861,271
Kansas City : $18,520,186
Baltimore : $18,263,198
Buffalo : $18,109,354
Seattle : $16,952,339
Denver : $15,930,140
Minnesota : $14,330,943
Chicago : $11,957,505
Detroit : $9,545,219
NY Jets: $8,186,235
Houston : $8,140,888
San Diego : $7,439,841
St. Louis : $7,241,028
Arizona : $5,783,648
Dallas : $4,147,344
NY Giants: $3,802,058
Washington : $2,930,335
Pittsburgh : $2,686,592
Oakland : $1,456,077
San Francisco : $1,035,903
Carolina : $3,625,068 (over cap)
New Orleans : $5,434,758 (over cap)

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/ja...g-but-concrete

[Joshua]

Can we hire the Eagles cap guy? In the last 2-3 years, they've somehow given Vick a $100 million dollar deal, Nnamdi a monster deal, taken on Demeco's contract, signed Babin, Cullen Jenkins, Desean Jackson, Trent Cole and Lesean McCoy, yet are $33 million under the cap? I know several of these guys have recently been cut, but that usually makes matters worse for the cap, with any prorated signing bonuses coming due.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Joshua

Can we hire the Eagles cap guy? In the last 2-3 years, they've somehow given Vick a $100 million dollar deal, Nnamdi a monster deal, taken on Demeco's contract, signed Babin, Cullen Jenkins, Desean Jackson, Trent Cole and Lesean McCoy, yet are $33 million under the cap? I know several of these guys have recently been cut, but that usually makes matters worse for the cap, with any prorated signing bonuses coming due.

I was looking at Indy's cap number and feeling unhappy with the implications.

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by chuck

I was looking at Indy's cap number and feeling unhappy with the implications.

Indy certainly has a lot of room to do some things. If I were placing a wager, that is where I would bet Barwin ends up, although I'm not sure if I would consider that a good or bad thing.