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Originally Posted by Brooklyn
hard cap is tough to work with.
wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do it like NBA with an apron and luxury tax with ability to go over the cap to sign your own player (i.e. Bird Rights).
not sure its viable with 53 guys vs like 15 on a basketball roster, but end of the day if we could go over the cap to keep Sneed, I think everyone wins and we'd probably already have Jones locked up too.
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The NBA cap has become a complicated shitshow of variable 'max deals' tied to revenue percentages, bad contracts being signed with the express purpose of offsetting other bad contracts to make deals work and players actually being OVERPAID by their present team because of the oddities of the Bird Rights.
The NBA system is not great. Now if you were to take it and make it go from covering a team with 15-20 players to 53+ it would be an even BIGGER mess. Especially when you consider the broad disparity between similarly situated players who play different positions (not the case in the NBA; a great PG is going to get paid roughly the same as a great C).
Nah - the NBA system just couldn't work in the NFL, IMO. And frankly there's no good reason for the NFL to implement it.
The NFL broke the NFLPA's backs decades ago. Why would they ever go backwards from there?