http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/04/22/salary-cap-space-as-of-april-22/

According to this, the Bengals have the 11th most money in the league. In other words, only 9 teams have more money, while 22 teams have less money still available to spend this year.

What's more, if you read the article the teams with the most money available, Philly and Tampa, have so much money because last year they deftly used a common practice that allows teams to move unused salary cap space from one year to the next year via "likely to be earned incentives." The practice is pretty straight forward: if you don't use all your salary cap space one year, then you can add the extra amounts on to players contracts in the form of likely to be earned incentives. Almost every team does this, but makes the incentives extremely hard to reach, like 20 or 25 TDs for a WR or 50 TDs for a QB, something like that. Per the CBA, if such incentives are not reached the money carries over to the next year's salary cap ceiling. It's really pretty easy to do, you can even add the incentives in at the end of the year making it a no-brainer b/c you would know at that point that you won't be needing the money as an "injury cushion" (Hobspin's favorite excuse for Brown-hole's frugality).

As mentioned in a previous post (http://www.network54.com/Forum/90650/thread/1232238133/last-1232315053/I+was+only+%2410.8+mil+under+the+salary+cap ) that referenced this article (http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/2009/01/monday-money-matters-18/ ), only 4 teams decided last year that they didn't feel like making this maneuver and would rather just let the cap room go to waste (or in the owner's pocket), and surprise! Brown-hole was on the list, wasting over $10 mill last year. So in reality, if our team just did the same things as other teams, not asking them to be ahead of the curve here, the Bungs would have over $26 mill to spend right now even with the signing of Coles.

Can anyone say "Derrick Ward, Jason Brown and the playoffs, here we come!" Not with brownhole as our team's owner you can't.

"We do do, and we do it at a very, very high level," Lewis said.

Well, no surprise here.

This shows both cheapness and ineptitude.

Cheapness for the obvious (most real franchises spend to the cap or near the cap allowing for some injury maneuvering).

Ineptitude because real franchises (in sports with salary caps a'la NFL/NHL) have someone in the front office who is a 'salary cap expert' who knows the ins and outs of the salary cap and how to maximize cap space legally. At times, it is a general manager or assistant GM or director of player personnel, sometimes just a consultant, but I have a feeling that the Bengals have no such person staffed (although admittedly I'm not sure).

I've suspected all along that GeoffyDoody was stooging for the Mike Beast and this proves it. Salary Cap my a$$!

I urge everyone to go over to WhoDeyRevolution.com and read the story about the gentleman from England who brought his father, a staunch Bengals and Reds fan to America to see three Reds games and the Bengals v. Titans game last year. The difference between how the Reds treated him and how Mikey's disgraceful ticket office treated him speaks volumes...

Got a link JB?

Signed,

LazyMoFo



And this sh*t's not surprising. Especially the part about Mikey pocketing Jerry Jones' $10 mil handout welfare check...

BTW--anybody pick up on that most well-run organizations in the NFL are short on the salary cap right now. Here's some examples:

Baltimore Ravens: $968,000
Carolina Panthers: $2.69 million
New England Patriots: $4.67 million
New York Giants: $4.37 million
Pittsburgh Steelers: $440,000


Meanwhile, the poorly run organizations are over $15 million in cap space currently like the Browns and Bungles?

Maybe this is why: After the draft, player personnel reps meet to discuss who's getting paid what--evaluate what they have--then make cuts according to who they can pay and who they can't pay? That's something that Mikehole's Organization knows nothing about.

Here's how Mikey runs his organization--he pays 1 to 2 Free Agents that you've probably heard of before to set the smokescreen that he's done something in the offseason to somehow make things better. Then utilizes the draft to replace players that he's either pissed off or probably paid in the offseason. That's how it works. That's also how you guys keep on getting screwed season after season.





"So he got fired? Big deal. It's happened to the best of us. So he got kicked out of his house by his 400 lb'ed wife?!?!? That's probably better for him anyways."-OldSchooler on ChrisMBHater's absence

keep in mind falc that you need cap room for draft picks, so you do want to have wiggle room at this point, whether it is via making someone a cap casualty (Colts releasing Harrison) or whether it is via restructuring contracts (Delhomme in Carolina). What's laughable about the Bungs is that their 'casualties' at the end of last year's camp really would have added depth to the team...and they COULD have afforded all three of them (Willie, Rudy, and Deltha). I could not imagine the Patriots or Steelers or Giants making such a move.

What Mike Brown will say is he is pocketing the money to use it in the upcoming uncapped years.

Don't forget this doesn't even account for the money he will pocket after the preseason via the release of Chris Perry, Levi Jones, etal (is Dexter Jackson still on the team? If so he will also be gone).

"We do do, and we do it at a very, very high level," Lewis said.