2010 Salary Cap

[kravix]

Originally Posted by NBT

So the small market teams like Buffalo will suffer, while the big market teams (of which we are one?) will prosper? The meek will certainly not inherit this particular earth!

Yes it looks as though one of the things I hate the most about the MLB will become common place in the NFL. Parity will go down the drain. Although everyone speculates that an ucapped year means there will never be another cap, I am not so certain.

When small market teams like Buffalo, St Loius, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Tampa and maybe a few more of the poorly run teams begin to fold and close shop both players and owners may see their folly. Unlike baseball the football season is extremely short, this leaves alot less time to generate revenue. These teams will end up with bad coaches and bad players. The competition between a bad team and a good team in baseball is less noticable, but in football it will be glaring. People will not pay the high prices to watch that. At least baseball can be a very inexpensive experience to take the family to, football cannot and wont be able to compete.

After the thrid team shuts down and there in no interest in owenership outside of the largest markets it will come full circle. This is just how I see it.

[Keith]

2010 Franchise and Transition Tag Amounts:

CORNERBACK: $9.566 million (franchise), $8.056 million (transition)
DEFENSIVE END: $12.398m, $10.193m
DEFENSIVE TACKLE: $7.003m, $6.353m
LINEBACKER: $9.680m, $8.373m
OFFENSIVE LINE: $10.731m, $9.142m
PUNTER/KICKER: $2.814m, $2.629m
QUARTERBACK: $16.405m, $14.546m
RUNNING BACK: $8.156m, $7.151m
SAFETY: $6.455m, $6.011m
TIGHT END: $5.908m, $5.248m
WIDE RECEIVER: $9.521m, $8.651m
The franchise tag is an average of the top five salaries at a position for the 2009 season. (Or, in the case of "exclusive" franchise tags, the average of the top five salaries as of a TBD date this coming April.) The transition tag is an average of the top 10.

http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2...nsition_t.html

[Nconroe]

Interesting numbers. Top 5 guys do pretty well.

I find it a little interesting that OL is second highest, or highest other than QB.

And more surprising that TE is lowest of the position players given how much impact TE seem to have in offenses these days.

[Keith]

2010 restricted free agent tender levels:

- Low tender: $1,176,000
- 2nd round tender: $1,759,000
- 1st round tender: $2,521,000
- 1st and 3rd round tender: $3,168,000

...or 110% of the 2009 salary if higher.

There's a new site worth checking periodically, NFLLabor.com. Browse at your convenience, but I am listing below those Texans players caught as RFAs due to the lack of a new CBA...mostly because this site also notes their current agents:

4 - HST - Ryans, DeMeco - MLB - 16 starts in 2009 - Dogra R.K. Ben
4 - HST - Pollard, Bernard - SS - 13 - Parker, Eugene E.
4 - HST - Daniels, Owen - TE - 8 - Butz, David R.
5 - HST - White, Chris - C - 8 - Weatherell, Donald Arthur
4 - HST - Busing, John - FS - 4 - Canter, David E.
5 - HST - Moats, Ryan - RB - 2 - Woy, Jordan
4 - HST - Butler, Rashad - T - 0 - Sarnoff, Kenneth R.

http://nfllabor.com/2010/02/03/playe...crued-seasons/

[Keith]

Someday I'll update the cap page again. Until then...

Zac Diles and Fred Bennett are getting base salary increases not yet reflected on the 2010 cap page. Both are entering the final year of their rookie contracts and were scheduled to get $550,000. Salary escalators have kicked in though per the NFLPA, so both now have base salaries of $1,101,000.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by Keith

Someday I'll update the cap page again. Until then...

Zac Diles and Fred Bennett are getting base salary increases not yet reflected on the 2010 cap page. Both are entering the final year of their rookie contracts and were scheduled to get $550,000. Salary escalators have kicked in though per the NFLPA, so both now have base salaries of $1,101,000.

If Bennett does not step it back up, I can see him off the roster at the new salary. Diles is a bargain.

[NBT]

Yeah....Bennet had one good year, then has not performed to expectations. I thought Gibbs the new DB coach would get more ouit of Bennet, but doesn't look that way now. I also think this is the year that Moulden better get off the training room table and prove he was worth that 3rd round pick.