When half of your teams are under .500, a team loses 28 games in a row and the top to bottom team salary difference is over 200 million, it's time to get rid of the scraps.Couldnt disagree more. Too much money being made to justify taking any owners team- let alone screwing a municipality that built their stadium. Also the talent pools in baseball and basketball are gigantic- more then large enough to support 30 teams. Basketball has added Europe over the last two decades for talent and baseball has added both Asia and soon Cuba, which could pump out more players than the Dominican. The only argument for contraction is that it makes a championship much harder when 30 teams are vying every year for one title.
NFL has a hard cap, and you can't go over it.I'm not sure how NFL salary cap works, but does this mean they have increased salary cap or at least probably be able to spend more in Los Angeles in a bigger market with probably much more revenue, especially in the beginning with the excitement of a new team in town. I would guess the chances of the Rams becoming a good team again and turning it around are much higher in LA.
Agreed. The way I looked at it it would be like if we never got our abortion of an expansion team and two years from now the owner of the Ravens moved the team back. It would be righting something that should have never happened.All due respect, Andrew, but the L.A. Rams had a great tradition and history. Merlin Olsen and Eric Dickerson baby!
In my mind, this righted a wrong. St. Louis shouldn't have poached the Rams in the first place. I'm glad one of the original LA teams is returning.
I am only posting because it affects the city I reside in, I know very little about this whole thing. But I thought they initially left bc of stadium funding and the fact that the fanbase just wasn't financially supporting the team so to say STL stole them is a bit harsh. I just don't see the logic if it was a fact the LA fanbase couldn't support 1 team how 20 years later they can support 2? Those teams aren't putting together winning seasons anytime soon.All due respect, Andrew, but the L.A. Rams had a great tradition and history. Merlin Olsen and Eric Dickerson baby!
In my mind, this righted a wrong. St. Louis shouldn't have poached the Rams in the first place. I'm glad one of the original LA teams is returning.
I thought it was a hard cap. But not every team has the same salary obviously so there must be some sort of penalty, and certain franchises can afford those penalties more I'm guessing. I was surprised to find the Jaguars have the highest salary in 2016. Or maybe they just have the most available cap room.NFL has a hard cap, and you can't go over it.
You can roll over unused cap space from the previous year, but that just means you underspent the year before.
If you are under the cap for a season, you can roll the extra space into the next year.I thought it was a hard cap. But not every team has the same salary obviously so there must be some sort of penalty, and certain franchises can afford those penalties more I'm guessing. I was surprised to find the Jaguars have the highest salary in 2016. Or maybe they just have the most available cap room.
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yea some should actually buy that. @natedaggwe can all invest in the domain www.losangelesrams.com and spam sports fans with a picture of @The Oi 's penis.
Which means if the cap stays the same, at 130 in this scenario, they can't sign/re-sign anybody if it means going over that number no matter what? Chiefs got half the defense coming off the books this year. I'm worried they will lose a lot of them. Sorry for getting a cap lesson in the middle of this thread, but I obviously don't know much about NFL cap.Of course, if they use all 130 mil, they have nothing to roll over into the next year, so they'll likely be over the cap the following year.