Arrowhead Pride had an interesting article today about Eric Berry and the reasons why the deal didn’t get done with the Chiefs. It was based on a comment by Mike Florio about the franchise tag values setting a market for players and in this case a disparity in valuation. I thought that made for an […]
In this weeks OTC podcast: Thoughts on the Broncos contract with Von Miller The shocking signing of Muhammad Wilkerson Did Eric Berry make the right call on the franchise tag Plus questions on Justin Tucker, LeVeon Bell, Ryan Fitzpatrick and more.
Voluntary off-season workouts for teams started this week, and many notable players around the league have been absent. Two All-Pro players skipped workouts due to their current contract situations. San Diego Chargers safety, Eric Weddle, is entering the final year of his contract, and is eager to sign an extension. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver […]
The Chiefs made it official today, announcing that they have placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on cornerback L’Jarius Sneed. Sneed was one of the key contributors to the Chiefs defensive success and should be in line to earn a top tier contract at the position. The Chiefs have indicated according to reports that they would […]
With Jamal Adams unhappy with his contract and some wild numbers being thrown around I figured this was as good a time as any to tackle one of the questions I get often- “is player X worth a record contract”. To keep this to the defensive side of the ball I’ll look at how much […]
The change in NFL accounting for the 2019 season is now official with June 1 officially in the books. For those not familiar with NFL salary cap accounting the league makes a distinction between the way they handle the salary cap charge for players released after June 1. For players released from multi year contracts […]
As I was writing Caponomics: Building Super Bowl Champions, which is now available on Amazon (paper edition/kindle), I realized there are two distinctly different styles of constructing a championship roster.The first roster construction strategy is the obvious one, investing in a top tier quarterback, which means over 10% of the cap, and thus creating, by […]