The new cap is $133M, $9+M more than last year. I just saw a report that it's supposed to rise another $10+M next year. With the rising cap, that just means the Packers have more and more money available. It should make re-signing our core players easier and, potentially, means TT has some money to play with for signing free agents.
The one downside to this is that I would imagine the signings also rise with the cap. So a $7M deal might now be an $8M deal. I would imagine agents are using this extra cap space to their advantage like this.
It'll be interesting to see if this plays a factor during free agency.
The way it keeps rising...it may hit $140 million yet this year.
You know, fans kick around unused 'cap' space in such a way, that it just becomes a number. Sort of like when I go into the vault at the bank and verify very large packs of "paper" (that's what they become after 30 years) that are actually very large packs of currency. After a while, numbers just become numbers and cold, hard cash just becomes pieces of paper.
The 'cap' is just a ceiling (and a false ceiling at that with the way contracts are manipulated) ... at one point or another, that number has to translate into the Packers actually handing over cash to guys. The Packers have limited cash reserves in relation to the Snyders and the Jones' of the NFL...and a good portion of those cash reserves can't even be used for player acquisition. I'm just one of those guys who doesn't see a fattening 'cap' as a good thing for the Packers as an organization.
Honest to god, border, I'm not singling out your post for ridicule... it's just that as I read this entire thread, I cringed a little at the notion of giving so much money to guys who can barely speak english. Hahahahaha.... ok, I'm going to go and settle back in to 1990 now.