Romes
09-09-2009, 01:47 AM
The Buffalo Bills have the eighth least expensive team in the NFL this season.
The total value of all of the contracts of all 80 players the Bills took to training camp this summer was $487.88 million. That ranked 25th out of 32 in the NFL this year, based on league documents obtained by The Buffalo News.
The top spending team — again based on the total value of the contracts of all the players at training camp — was Minnesota, at $736.87 million. Among the other teams near the top were some of the biggest-spending big market teams, such as No. 2 Philadelphia ($721.22 million), No. 3 Dallas ($715.40 million) and No. 4 Washington ($676.88 million).
At the bottom were four teams in total rebuilding mode: No. 32 Kansas City ($392.13 million), No. 31 Tampa Bay ($404.39 million), No. 30 Detroit ($426.35 million) and No. 29 Denver ($428.99 million).
It should be noted that teams will not end up giving all this money to the players on their roster. The figures include some exorbitant salaries at the end of some giant contracts that those players won't see. Some of those players either will get cut or renegotiate their contracts before those payments get made.
Still, the figures reflect the number of marquee players on each team's roster and each organization's willingness to hand out big contracts.
Link for the rest (http://www.buffalonews.com/452/story/789046.html)
I found interesting is that the article says 23 other teams use the cash-to-cap policy that has been so widely critisized on these boards.
The way I see it is that the problem isn't the size of the contracts offered, its who we offer them to and who we draft...has nothing to do with being cheap.
The total value of all of the contracts of all 80 players the Bills took to training camp this summer was $487.88 million. That ranked 25th out of 32 in the NFL this year, based on league documents obtained by The Buffalo News.
The top spending team — again based on the total value of the contracts of all the players at training camp — was Minnesota, at $736.87 million. Among the other teams near the top were some of the biggest-spending big market teams, such as No. 2 Philadelphia ($721.22 million), No. 3 Dallas ($715.40 million) and No. 4 Washington ($676.88 million).
At the bottom were four teams in total rebuilding mode: No. 32 Kansas City ($392.13 million), No. 31 Tampa Bay ($404.39 million), No. 30 Detroit ($426.35 million) and No. 29 Denver ($428.99 million).
It should be noted that teams will not end up giving all this money to the players on their roster. The figures include some exorbitant salaries at the end of some giant contracts that those players won't see. Some of those players either will get cut or renegotiate their contracts before those payments get made.
Still, the figures reflect the number of marquee players on each team's roster and each organization's willingness to hand out big contracts.
Link for the rest (http://www.buffalonews.com/452/story/789046.html)
I found interesting is that the article says 23 other teams use the cash-to-cap policy that has been so widely critisized on these boards.
The way I see it is that the problem isn't the size of the contracts offered, its who we offer them to and who we draft...has nothing to do with being cheap.