Salary Cap Rises $400k

[Tedtanium1976]

@Grover

Why wasn’t this announced before all these teams have made their final offers before finding out the cap has gone up by a substantial amount,
Giving the teams that had lost their FA’s ability to match with their new found $$$ and the offering teams have no recourse
It’s just so CFL
Randy’s final chance to kick the CFL in the gnads on his way out

CFL teams knew a month ago at the very latest during the Winter Meetings

Roar Report

[Jon]

@Squishy21

Because apart from them 99% of the team was rookies on entry level contracts.

So what the Elks paid premium players was more than they were worth. I wouldn’t look at any contract they paid big money to as any more than that.

You’re not wrong necessarily and that is probably what management across the league argued when negotiating receiver contracts. I am pretty sure, however that player agents for other receivers argued that if the two best were worth $300,000 or more that their guy was worth $260,000 or $280,000. An example is Tim White initially overreaching for $300,000 because of these contracts. Whether you thing Geno or Kenny were worth their contracts or not, objectively they were too expensive within the league salary cap structure.

The Elks had no obligation to offer less and had the money to do so, but they skewered receiver contracts across the league as a result. Sports history is full of examples of owners and GM’s offering ridiculous contracts and needing to be protected from themselves, which is part of the reasoning for having a salary cap. The NHL used to do this all the time and MLB still does. Even the offer sheets made for your two Oiler excellent depth players last year carry some of this effect. You may remember Bryan Burke going ballistic a few years back when an offer sheet was successfully made.

In any event the market appears to have reset itself somewhat and a top receiver is worth about $50,000 less. I think that is a good thing for competetive balance overall.

[Tedtanium1976]

@cflisthebest

oh come on now. they can’t do that, these are scheduled way in advance and you can’t just delay it. the info probably wasn’t available till now. stop picking only the cherries you like…

The info was available no later than January 15 as per the CBA.

The idea that the CFLPA didn’t know about it as well is laughable. Instead of outrage, they sent out their own amicable news release.

CFLPA Shares Historic Salary Cap Increase for 2025 Season – CFLPA

I agree with the CFL and the CFLPA jointly waiting until now to release this information. Releasing it during the NFL playoffs would have been a silly “CFL” move.

[Squishy21]

@Tedtanium1976

The info was available no later than January 15 as per the CBA.

I kinda figured the teams would have found out at the winter meetings, this says they did know.
It would be pretty silly to go into the Free Agency process not knowing what your budget is…

We the public just weren’t in the loop, but then we didn’t need to be did we…

[Tedtanium1976]

@Squishy21

I kinda figured the teams would have found out at the winter meetings, this says they did know.
It would be pretty silly to go into the Free Agency process not knowing what your budget is…

We the public just weren’t in the loop, but then we didn’t need to be did we…

CFL does things like this all the time. When the schedule was ready they didn’t release the information the next day.

[pantsonfire]

@Jon

…the GM who said that this will “test the integrity of everyone” might just have been wearing whiskers and a cat’s tail.As for the horrible Derel Walker contract, I wasn’t referring to that but more recently to the Elks signing Geno Lewis and Kenny Lawler for $320,000 and $300,000 respectively. The top end has now come down to $275,000 assuming Lawler doesn’t reject everything and try to obtain more.

Jon, I’m not really taking a position on this. I brought up the fact Friesen said the Bombers should go for it. People can run with that any way they want. If you took the time to read the full item by Lalji & Naylor, you might not be so quick to judge.

Here is another part of that article that will appeal to you:

Q – But could a player walk away from his negotiation window deal if he wanted to try to find a better deal elsewhere?

A – Yes, he could, as the vast majority of agreements within the window are handshakes that are not binding. A player wanting out of that agreement would be free to go to another team if, for instance, that team wanted to use some of the new money to increase its offer to him."

The bottom line is the Bombers have a 48 hr window come Sunday to put in an offer to the player. That hasn’t changed. If they desire to match the offer with the new $$$, they can do so. The players have a 2 hr window immediately before FA opens to accept the Bomber offer & entertain offers from other interested clubs. With the same extra room available I would be very surprised if Ted Goveia didn’t raise the ante again. It’s in nobody else’s hands but the Bombers. Either they will pay him or they won’t.

[HfxTC]

@pantsonfire

…hanged. If they desire to match the offer with the new $$$, they can do so. The players have a 2 hr window immediately before FA opens to accept the Bomber offer & entertain offers from other interested clubs. With the same extra room available I would be very surprised if Ted Goveia didn’t raise the ante again. It’s in nobody else’s hands but the Bombers. Either they will pay him or they won’t.

I hope teams and players get greedy and then the league decides to diburse the money on a fix percentage which is more fair and compensates all players for the Trudeau Pesos.

[GHT120]

@HfxTC

I hope teams and players get greedy and then the league decides to diburse the money on a fix percentage which is more fair and compensates all players for the *** TRUDEAU PESOS ***.

Why politicize a sports discussion?

[HfxTC]

@GHT120

Why politicize a sports discussion?

Cause the collapsing dollar has a massive effect on talent that can be attracted to our favorite football league.

[GHT120]

@HfxTC

…Cause the collapsing dollar has a massive effect on talent that can be attracted to our favorite football league.image436×370 15.2 KB

And that point can be easily and clearly made without the political commentary.

[mikem]

@GHT120

And that point can be easily and clearly made without the political commentary.

was that a political commentary?
It is concern if players coming to Canada are now earning only 68% of what they earned a few years ago - no politics about that.
A QB earing $250k is actually earning $174k $US

[GHT120]

@mikem

was that a political commentary?
It is concern if players coming to Canada are not earning only 68% of what they earned a few years ago - no politics about that.
A QB earing $250k is actually earning 174k today in US

“Trudeau pesos”, in the original post, is pretty clearly a political commentary.

[HfxTC]

@GHT120

“Trudeau pesos”, in the original post, is pretty clearly a political commentary.

I’m just crediting him with transforming our dollar into a closer kin to the mexican Peso.
His face should be on our money.

[GHT120]

@HfxTC

I’m just crediting him with transforming our dollar into a closer kin to the mexican Peso.
His face should be on our money.

A feeble attempt to be clever.

[Squishy21]

@Jon or @BetweenTheGoalposts

this has run its course, please close the thread.

[HfxTC]

@GHT120

A feeble attempt to be clever.

Da Caesari quae sunt Caesaris

[mikem]

@GHT120

“Trudeau pesos”, in the original post, is pretty clearly a political commentary.

Okay, I didn’t see that

[mikem]

Collaros doesn’t like the cap announcement. He’s got a point, bad timing?

https://3downnation.com/2025/02/06/bombers-qb-zach-collaros-calls-timing-of-cfl-salary-cap-increase-absolutely-ridiculous/

[GHT120]

@mikem

Okay, I didn’t see that

[Squishy21]

@mikem

…Collaros doesn’t like the cap announcement. He’s got a point, bad timing?https://3downnation.com/2025/02/06/bombers-qb-zach-collaros-calls-timing-of-cfl-salary-cap-increase-absolutely-ridiculous/

If you read back that announcement had to be made to the CFLPA by January 15th, per the CBA.
All we can deduce was it wasn’t announced to the media until the beginning of free agency. Which - I am fine with.
Because if it was announced to the CFLPA, little doubt it was announced to the teams as part of the process.

I think the CFLPA rep in Winnipeg was Bighill, so it may no longer be his place to announce it to team mates.