The price you pay...

[Chubby]

Through 4 seasons, my Buffalo Bills are 66-9 with 3 Super Bowls (the other season we lost in the AFC title game). This was a drafted team that I went after qb/wr/db first. The team is centered around Manning at QB, Koren Robinson and Joe Horn (who is since been cut) at WR, Shockey at TE, Schulters at FS, Minter at SS, McAllister and Ronde Barber at CB.

I was able to stay out of cap trouble through some creative contracts even while drafting a stud RB with the 3rd overall pick in 2005. However, it's now 2007. The cap is $91,000,000 and I'm only a measly $37,410,000 over the cap.

What to do, what to do...

[SnowMan]

Holy cow, good luck with that!

Time to trade and cut the farm. Hope you can win a game next season. :)

[Dutch]

Just ran into this same problem, but a couple of years quicker. 30 mill over the cap after a 15-1 and 14-2 season, one loss in the championship and one loss in the conference championship to show for.

Had to make some cuts and "cap out" a couple other guys so I could potentially face the same problem next year. I kept the core of my #1 overall defense, my RB and QB and cut any quality depth of note and all my WR's. Ouch.

[EagleFan]

I've had similar type success, but on the losing end of those Super Bowls. All hell has hit me in season 6 though as my creative cap management over the first few seasons has taken it's toll. As the year rolled I saw that I was 10 million over the cap and my draftees from the early seasons are now demanding big bucks (partly where I was saving money on good players the last couple seasons). Big problems.

[Chubby]

so this season I'm at $128,410,000.

next season I've already got $142,190,000 in cap space used. :)

ugh...

[Chubby]

I already did the cap out on Manning (his initial contract is killer) and Robinson.

I wonder if part of the problem is with having gone through the inital draft before my career started. At least taking a regular teamover to start the contracts are sorta balanced in the future whereas they aren't when you draft and take players from other teams to start out.

[RPI-Fan]

Holy cow! I built a secondary in my career around McAllister, Barber, and Schulters!

[Barkeep49]

Yeah I tried a couple of careers with drafting but after a season I could already fortell trouble and started over with a normal league with much better success. I think doing an initial draft plays too much havoc with the salary cap, which seems to be the most challenging aspect of the game from my experince and from the boards.

[Chubby]

ok, I decided to just go with my 43 man roster that I have under contract, go for the gold this year, then gut the team in 2008. I traded for a 3rd qb, which was the only roster requirement I was missing. Now I just gotta hope for few injuries to key people since I can't sign anyone.


RPI - especially with how pass happy fof 2004 is, i'm glad I built my career around them. they're studs.

barkeep - i agree.

[Chubby]

well we went 12-4 and won the division.

time for our wild card game...