Last Thursday the Steelers cut tight end Ladarius Green after just one season, incurring a $3.56M dead money charge after paying Green $6 million in 2016. It was hailed as the worst contract in Steelers history (which actually says a lot for how good the Steelers have been with their contracts) since he barely played […]
We introduced this piece last week as one that will follow the trials and tribulations of the quarterbacks and interior defensive linemen that signed new contracts during the spring of 2016. Week 4 saw quite a few impressive performances from both positions. Let’s see who was the best and worst of their respective groupings.
I haven’t watched basketball much over the last few years, but I have been watching the end of the Western Conference Finals and Game 1 of the NBA Finals, so I’ve been kind of looking at the game with fresh eyes after not following for about six to eight years. What I see in the […]
This is the final draft of the first chapter of Caponomics: Moneyball Thinking for the NFL. We’re sending it out to publishers this week, but a) I’d love to share it with the Over The Cap audience as I’ve been unable to post much since March as I’ve been in the process of re-writing my first […]
I had a number of requests to look at the Raiders salary cap and contract decisions and since I find the Raiders a pretty fascinating team and this is an ultra slow time for contract news it seems like a good topic. For the second year in a row the Raiders were one of the […]
1995 Dallas Cowboys Review Figure 1: Top 30 Cap Charges
I’ll ue this thread to fill in some of my initial reactions to some of the contract news as it comes in, unless its something that warrants a post of its own. So feel free to check back through the day to see if I have added any names here. I’ll update from the top […]