Bills' 2008 "Adjusted" Salary Cap

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Bills' cap adjustment was a cap credit of $12,713,009 and that makes the Bills' "adjusted" salary cap:

$129,442,009

[Philagape]

Re: Bills' 2008 "Adjusted" Salary Cap

Bills' cap adjustment was a cap credit of $12,713,009 and that makes the Bills' "adjusted" salary cap:

$129,442,009

That's a couple of Kawika Mitchells right there

[Mitchy moo]

Re: Bills' 2008 "Adjusted" Salary Cap

That's a couple of Kawika Mitchells right there

Toss in a Wilford for good measure.

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Dash of Stroud as well

[Hawkeye Pierce]

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Can you detail how that "adjustment" was arrived at?

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check salary cap forum

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thread: Bills 2008 Cash to Cap has a partial explanation

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Bump for NE39

[Ickybaluky]

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Sorry about that, Clump.

Can you detail how that "adjustment" was arrived at?

There is a rule in the CBA that any incentive added to a contract during the season is classified as Likely To Be Earned (which counts toward the cap). Thus, a team can add a huge incentive a player will never earn (like, say, giving Mario Haggans a huge bonus for 15 sacks), and it will eat up extra cap room in the current year because it is considered LTBE.

At the end of the year, there is an accounting done on incentives for that year. The difference between LTBE incentives that were not earned and not LTBE incentives that were is figured out, and the following year's cap is adjusted.

Teams use this loophole to carry over unused cap room, so it isn't lost forever.

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Sorry about that, Clump.



There is a rule in the CBA that any incentive added to a contract during the season is classified as Likely To Be Earned (which counts toward the cap). Thus, a team can add a huge incentive a player will never earn (like, say, giving Mario Haggans a huge bonus for 15 sacks), and it will eat up extra cap room in the current year because it is considered LTBE.

At the end of the year, there is an accounting done on incentives for that year. The difference between LTBE incentives that were not earned and not LTBE incentives that were is figured out, and the following year's cap is adjusted.

Teams use this loophole to carry over unused cap room, so it isn't lost forever.

No need to be sorry...I was just teasing ya

[Goobylal]

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So any incentive added during the season is considered LTBE? Strange.

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That's how it works...........incentives added after the season starts. That's how the Bills added the $3 million LTBE for Schobel's special teams play

[Ebenezer]

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That's how it works...........incentives added after the season starts. That's how the Bills added the $3 million LTBE for Schobel's special teams play

and it isn't like there was any actual money involved...they basically took salary cap space and moved it to the following year...

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Thanks for the clarification