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Bengals 2011 Salary Cap Info


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Per Yasinskas at ESPN, Bengals are set to spend $90.7 million on players in 2011. Rest of the division:

Cleveland $99.2 million

Baltimore $101.3 million

Super Bowl Losers $116 million

The last cap in '09 was about $130 million.


/>http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/18328/looking-at-2011-salary-cap-figures

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Per Yasinskas at ESPN, Bengals are set to spend $90.7 million on players in 2011. Rest of the division:

Cleveland $99.2 million

Baltimore $101.3 million

Super Bowl Losers $116 million

The last cap in '09 was about $130 million.


/>http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/18328/looking-at-2011-salary-cap-figures

According to ESPN talks have broken off between the owners and players and the issue is how to set the salary cap. Apparently there is about $9billion in revenue and the players want the cap set at 50% of that or $140mill per team. The owners want a $2B exemption and then divide the remaining $7mill at 50% which leads to $109mill per team.

No way in hell the players will go from a $130mill cap in 2009 to a $109mill cap in 2011. Sounds like the owners are really playing hardball here.

If this is where this thing stands, it's plain to see that it's going to take a long time to iron this out. I will say this, the owners aren't going through the trouble to re-open this CBA to only get the same deal as last year. I think we can count on the $130M cap going down in 2011.

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Hobson writes that it doesn't look like the Bengals will use the franchise tag on either Ced or J-Joe.

I would have to think that means J-Joe is basically gone. Even with the injury knock he's still a blue-chip CB and those almost never come on the market. Some team will offer him a pile of money so huge it will make even Mikey jealous.

As for Ced, I can see him coming back but it depends on what the Bengals' definition of a "sane" contract is. The rumor mill spit out a number he was supposedly looking for a while back: 3 years, $16 million, which doesn't strike me as unreasonable. But I have no idea if that number is accurate or not.

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Hobson writes that it doesn't look like the Bengals will use the franchise tag on either Ced or J-Joe.

I would have to think that means J-Joe is basically gone. Even with the injury knock he's still a blue-chip CB and those almost never come on the market. Some team will offer him a pile of money so huge it will make even Mikey jealous.

Well, I would have normally said nobody will give JJoe a huge contract after just an average season where injuries played a role AGAIN, but then again, a team that does not land a CB in the draft and misses on eithe Asomugha or Champ Bailey (if he doesn't retire) might just feel desperate and throw $10 + Million at Joseph thinking he's a bargain at few Mill less than per season than the other 2.

Ridiculous when you think about it. I like Joseph, but not at anywhere near Carson money.....He just doesn't have a big enough impact on the game. His 14 Picks in 5 seasons don't put him in the category of "Playmaker", and he isn't a "Shut Down" guy either, so he's just a solid CB, and you CANNOT tie up that much of your Cap Space on just a "Solid" player.

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