How the NFL Salary Cap Works

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Ever wonder how the NFL Salary Cap works? Max Dean breaks it down for you in this installment of How the NFL Works on Defiant Takes Football, formerly Pan-Am Football!
Max originally started Pan-Am Football during the pandemic, but founded Defiant Takes Football with a group of other tremendous analysts: Nick Merriam, Kyron Samuels, Reagan Harris, and Noah Ashley.
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@babyboomer4949 4 года назад

This was a great video. Really puts Jets releasing Bell into perspective

@kennethqian6114 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video!! I've been trying to find introductory videos explaining NFL salary cap, and this did the trick

@tomgow5305 4 года назад

That was fantastic so informative, professional and incredibly simply presented! Could you please do a video on the chiefs salary, they have made some huge signings this off season and I can’t understand how

@DefiantTakesFootball 4 года назад

Absolutely, I'll get to work on it!

@DefiantTakesFootball 4 года назад

Video on how Kansas City signed their three big players, just for you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZaXsIjKBgws.html

@omieg89 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball that’s really nice of you to do that. Thanks again for these videos. Very helpful.

@rfk617 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball hats off for that man wow

@rkbelmont1138 3 года назад

Salary caps evens the playground between big and small market teams. But it also screws teams with good front offices, scouting teams and coaching staff. You scouted that 6th round player and developed him into an star, just for another team with more cap space to enjoy his prime. Still think there should be some kind of discount against the cap for players drafted by the team

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

I wouldn’t say it screws them, the teams with good front offices are the only ones who will have sustained success. If lesser teams get better by giving expensive contracts to other teams players, they will always have more variance year to year. Sustained success is the most dominant factor in competing for a Super Bowl

@silverblack8312 2 года назад

1:55 starts

@thyha 3 года назад

What happens when a player get's traded? Is the guaranteed money due immediately or will it still be paid over the years. What happens when a player decides to retire?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Guaranteed money will still be paid per the same schedule, by the new team. Traded players cause the same type of proration effects as a cut player for old team though, and same with retirement. No salary needs to be paid in the event of retirement however.

@User42959 3 года назад

If a team has negative cap, does that mean they can’t sign anyone during the off-season?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

If they are “negative” it just means they have to fix their cap before the new league year starts in March. But yes they probably will not really be able to sign many new players.

@muhammadsidibe2523 3 года назад

so the reason you cant trade even contracts in NFL like you can do in NBA is because of the signing bonus ?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

It depends on exactly what you mean but basically yes. If you want to give an example of players I can say yes or no. Any prorated type of bonus will effect the cap in later years, so even players with identical contracts in every way but one signed a year later would effect the cap differently if traded straight up.

@muhammadsidibe2523 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball ok so i am an eagles fan. As you know carson wentz just signed a massive contract last year and this year he’s on a outs with the team I think he should get traded to the Colts. But when I’m listening to Undisputed and First Take they’re always talking about dead money. And the massive cap hit the eagles will take . How can they trade him and not deal with penalties?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

The Wentz situation deserves its own video. Wentz has both the signing bonus and guaranteed salary. Salary would transfer to the new team if traded, or stick to the eagles if cut. Signing bonus sticks with eagles no matter what. The money is already paid so don’t think of it as a penalty. There is no way to lower it, but there is a way to spread it out over 2 years instead of 1.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

If the Eagles trade Wentz before June 1, 2021, all of the signing bonus applies to 2021 cap. If they trade him after June 1, 2021, part of the signing bonus is on the 2021 cap and part is on the 2022 cap.

@muhammadsidibe2523 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball please make a video 🙏🏾

@uncagedbeast22jeehe7 3 года назад

So what if some player is getting payed 70 million on a 4 year contract 30 Guaranteed can you just not play the full money to save cap space

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

I’m not sure what you mean, can you be a little more specific? Depending on the type of guarantee, you can’t get out of it, but I’m not sure of exactly what your scenario is

@michaeljames2084 3 года назад

*QUESTION* Why doesnt a coaches salary count against the cap? See Jon Grudens 100M.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

The salary cap is directly tied to the legal agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association. The NFLPA would never agree to have part of their allocated money go towards coaches. Also, each team really only pays 1 Coach a substantial amount of money, so they can all afford that without really effecting any equality in competition

@JCole2598 3 года назад

Amazing video... would love to learn about contract strategies and a lot more about the business of the NFL

@heavyizthacrown-5842 3 года назад

I subbed. I’m also ready for that video!

@LV-1969 3 года назад

Nice video. And I thought my taxes were complicated - I'm glad I don't have to manage a team's salary cap.

@anubisgod23 3 года назад

with a group of highly skilled and intelligent accountants and lawyers

@davepotts13 3 года назад

Wow. Great breakdown!

@marcopolo2418 3 года назад

Thank You, I'll check out some of your other videos

@TELEthruVOXx 3 года назад

I want guys to get paid all there money but something about the dead cap don’t make sense if you trade a guy. Like this Goff/ Stanford trade. Both teams have dead cap as a result. Why is it 20m or what ever when your swapping contracts. Shouldn’t it just be the difference between the to?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

I made a video about the trade, I think it will explain everything for you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SrTaIsVhbKI.html

@MrShortpebble 3 года назад

Thanks for the vid. Helpful to understand dead cap. People often refer to it as teams paying players to not play for them which confused me, but watching this, its just money they've already paid in signing bonus.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Yes that’s mostly the case. It is possible it could refer to a guaranteed salary that still has to be paid even after a player is released but it almost always is the bonus as you said

@MrShortpebble 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball didn't think of that. Would the new team not pick up future guaranteed money? Seems like a good trade for the colts regardless.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

If it is a trade yes, if it was a release, the old team is stuck with it. Offsets can come into play in certain situations though. That’s something I should do a video on at some point.

@willschmidt4808 3 года назад

So say a team is over the cap, for example, the Saints. Like 80 million over the cap. Is that all from dead money? And what does that mean for their spending this coming offseason?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

I actually did a full Video on the Saints, it will probably answer your questions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CpRrALIni0k.html

@300jet 2 года назад

This was outstanding. Thank you!

@costaricansportsfan5390 3 года назад

What happens if a player is traded Does his guaranteed money transfer to his new team Also what happens with the dead money if a player retires Does it still count? So for example brees would have a 22 mil dead cap hit if he retired today

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

If a player is traded, all guarantees transfer to the new team. Dead Cap Rules: -Traded: Prorated money is dead cap, any guarantees transfer to new team. -Released: Prorated money and any guarantees are dead cap. -Retired: Prorated money is dead cap, any guarantees are usually forfeited by the retiring player.

@jeffmonaghan 2 года назад

They should make the salary cap $200 million each year, just to keep it simple 🏈

@DefiantTakesFootball 2 года назад

Yeah the only issue with that is the players are entitled to a percentage of the overall NFL earnings, so the owners would be keeping money that is rightfully the players’ if the cap doesn’t progressively increase as the revenue does

@rapperranker5156 3 года назад

At 13:38 you showed that Player Q was cut after Year 3 but the bonus still goes to Year 4, I thought it all hits the cap the year he is released?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

If he’s cut after year 3, it would be during year 4 offseason, so it effects year 4.

@heavyizthacrown-5842 3 года назад

Great work! Thanks alot for the video!

@aldoemm1680 3 года назад

Awesome!!! Now let´s see what will happen if Watson gets traded

@ormitor9653 3 года назад

He just asked for a release 30 mins ago

@jaylev85 3 года назад

Is that a 3 year rolling period for the 90pct min?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

It’s a 3 year period, the last one was 2018-2020, the new one is from 2021-2023. You listen to the Over the Cap Podcast? Ha

@johnnygunther1721 3 года назад

Bro I love you I was trying to figure out why the numbers weren’t adding up when I kept trying to calculate the revenue going to the players. I totally forgot to take into account the player benefits. I kept going like the NFL had 15.2 billion in revenue but all team’s salary cap added together is only 6.3 that’s not 47 percent.

@justjake2849 3 года назад

i love u

@michaelcdarby 3 года назад

Watching this to see how in the world the saints fix their 95 million cap deficit

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

That's going to be a fun one

@michaelcdarby 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball for sure lol

@jimmychen253 3 года назад

I am still confused on cap space so lets say you have $26 million cap space left and you sign a player to a 3 year 30 million dollar contract, one year 10 million dollars does that mean it would take 10 million dollars off the cap space?

@jimmychen253 3 года назад

Its seems low but nfl you can sign players for less.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

No if you sign a player for 3 years $30 million you can assign the cap hits in many different ways. You could do $10 mil/$10 mil/$10 mil or $1 mil/$2 mil/$27 mil or $11 mil/$11 mil/$8 mil, whatever you want basically. It all depends on the types of payments you make and when you make them.

@patrickcardoso324 3 года назад

Feel bad for every GM out there.

@eduardosalazarrivero1085 3 года назад

Make a video about the 2021 salary cap because of COVID

@camaro7587 3 года назад

Why do they force teams to use 90% of capspace every 3 years?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

A couple reasons... 1st, to ensure the players are getting most of their share of the profits according to the CBA. 2nd, because the NFL shares a lot of it's profits among franchises, and they want to ensure that the brand is protected and maintains quality across all teams. They don't want any team to just coast and not spend any. money.

@camaro7587 3 года назад

@@DefiantTakesFootball thank you for the response

@BillGong 3 года назад

Thank you. This was awesome. You did a great job on the contract graphs.

@camowolf4975 3 года назад

Boi Dats Cap

@plazmaburngaming5163 3 года назад

Quick question, what happens if a team cannot reach the 90% 3 yearly salary cap minimum spend? Does it never happen because of the money involved in the NFL? What punishments are there for not meeting the spending threshold?

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Any team can do it, it’s based on a percentage of the overall profits so it can never be cost prohibitive for a team to accomplish by nature. There is no real punishment in fact, because all that happens is the team is forced to pay the difference to its players which is distributed according to the NFL Players Association. But it’s never actually happened.

@laa0fa502 3 года назад

I didn't think your real name was Max D till you put it on the screen thats awesome. Great video also but you're already winning life with that name

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Gotta thank my parents for a few things ha

@whyinternet 3 года назад

Video starts at 1:52

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Actually it’s 1:51

@john.d193 3 года назад

Thanks for the great Video. As a longtime NBA fan I was already familiar with salary caps but the NFL salary cap still confused me and is even more complicated than the NBA‘s so really thanks again.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

No doubt!

@jjsziabo4252 3 года назад

Great Video! The only thing that confused me a little was the accelerated proration part. I wish you could have changed the chart to reflect where the money would be allocated to in this case.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Thanks, I can make a short video on exactly that topic. It’s such a simple concept but it’s strangely hard to explain. I think it’s because it’s surrounded by so much other stuff and also it deals in a lot of hypotheticals

@brentfurtado7580 3 года назад

This video is fucking awesome

@nealpandya6286 3 года назад

Very good video. The content was clear and well organized. I will rewatch this several times to memorize it...which I don’t mind doing when the content is this useful.

@DefiantTakesFootball 3 года назад

Thanks so much! All of the feedback has been very encouraging!