The Salary Cap Legitimately Might Decrease

[Direckshun]

Adam Schefter:

“We all wait to see when and if there will be football this season — and I think there will be — what form it will take. I think that everybody understands and recognizes that it could be, potentially, a little bit of a shortened season. Hopefully not, maybe not, but it could be. It certainly could be with no fans...

“Now i want people to think about this going forward — because it is something that the NFL and the NFLPA soon is going to have to be thinking about — and that is if there are no fans in the stands this season that would equate essentially to about on average roughly $100 million less in revenue per team for each of the 32 NFL teams in the NFL. If we multiply that $100 million by the 32 we get $3.2 billion in lost revenue, and why is that a big deal? Because the Salary cap is based off the total revenue that comes in...

“So if there is $3.2 billion in less revenue, which is a rough number... but well within the range that is expected and as other people pointed out there are other financial losses as well, we are looking, potentially, at the salary cap dropping in 2021 by $70 to $80 million.”

Now if we say the salary cap, which is currently $209m, goes down $70m, that puts the cap at $139m.

Looking at OverTheCap's 2021 salary cap, and that means exactly five teams will start under the cap. Every other team is starting the 2021 offseason over the cap.

Forget focusing on just the Chiefs for a minute, let's talk about the entire NFL.

What in the living hell does the NFL look like in 2021 if this happens?

Almost every team will have to savage their own roster with dramatic cuts. They will have to replace those guys with dudes off the street. And any free agent player who is remotely talented will essentially sit out 2021.

What on earth?