Bucs have 10th lowest payroll in 2008

[yuccaneers]

According to USA TODAY, the Buccaneers have the 10th lowest payroll in the NFL for 2008, while the Raiders have the highest

 2008
Team   Total Payroll
  Oakland Raiders    $ 152,389,371                                         
  Dallas Cowboys    $ 146,401,600                                         
  Minnesota Vikings    $ 133,354,045                                         
  Cleveland Browns    $ 131,916,300                                         
  New Orleans Saints    $ 131,531,820                                         
  Pittsburgh Steelers    $ 128,815,061                                         
  Tennessee Titans    $ 126,017,443                                         
  Arizona Cardinals    $ 122,110,110                                         
  Jacksonville Jaguars    $ 122,109,207                                         
  Chicago Bears    $ 120,065,819                                         
  San Francisco 49ers    $ 118,766,239                                         
  New York Jets    $ 116,910,097                                         
  St. Louis Rams    $ 116,677,660                                         
  New York Giants    $ 115,816,180                                         
  Miami Dolphins    $ 114,649,660                                         
  Buffalo Bills    $ 113,364,927                                         
  Carolina Panthers    $ 112,114,711                                         
  Washington Redskins    $ 111,963,684                                         
  San Diego Chargers    $ 111,813,340                                         
  Cincinnati Bengals    $ 109,727,880                                         
  Philadelphia Eagles    $ 109,557,398                                         
  Houston Texans    $ 108,445,418                                         
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers    $ 104,329,311                                         
  Seattle Seahawks    $ 102,985,710                                         
  Atlanta Falcons    $ 100,146,925                                         
  Detroit Lions    $ 95,827,117                                         
  Denver Broncos    $ 95,599,778                                         
  Green Bay Packers    $ 94,018,300                                         
  Indianapolis Colts    $ 93,373,915                                         
  New England Patriots    $ 92,734,120                                         
  Baltimore Ravens    $ 90,713,965                                         
  Kansas City Chiefs    $ 83,623,776                                         

Here is a link for the Buccaneers 2008 Salary Cap

   

[BMurph]

lol, that is just a credit to our front office. Look at the top 10 in term of highest payroll. Outside of the Titans not many of those teams are having success this season and are still paying out the most in the league.

[Fitz66]

Raiders..hahah

They keep hemorrhaging money with deals like the one DeAngelo got...no wonder

[Feel Real Good]

There are two ways to look at the higher spending teams.

1. You have teams highlighted by the Raiders who throw money at washed up or other marginally useful free agents, and

2. Teams like the Titans, Steelers, and Giants who have the problem of drafting too many good players and having to re-sign them to reflect their position as among the league's best. Hopefully this is where the Bucs are heading.

[rowdie]

lol, that is just a credit to our front office. Look at the top 10 in term of highest payroll. Outside of the Titans not many of those teams are having success this season and are still paying out the most in the league.

Not to mention VY is surely one of their higher paid guys and he's not playing.

So, we'll go ahead and determine that payroll doesn't seem to indicate success.

[yuccaneers]

Young is actually the Titans 10th highest paid player

[rowdie]

Young is actually the Titans 10th highest paid player

Do you factor in his signing bonus or just his base pay?   

Do you post that to be specific kind of an FYI or because you don't think that qualifies as "one of the higher paid guys"?

Bucs have the 10th lowest payroll, but the 2nd highest ticket prices in the NFL.   The only ratio that is worse than that is the Patriots which has the 3rd lowest payroll but the highest ticket prices in the NFL.   Now compare the fan base and ticket demand between the Patriots and the Bucs...   I dont know if anyone else noticed this, but the Bucs game that had the worst traffic this season leading into RJ was the pre season game vs New England.  And yes, I paid face value $395 PER TICKET for that game.  

I made a valid point.  now let the FL Native bashing begin

[Uncle Stan]

Yucc,

If the cap minimum is somewhere around $101Mil, how are so many teams under it?

Or the numbers posted are incorrect.

Which is it?

why is Oakland's so high?  they dont have anyone on their team

[Biggs3535]

Young is actually the Titans 10th highest paid player

Imagine that Titans team with Cutler at QB for the next 10-15 years

[yuccaneers]

That is with his signing bonus factored in as it is prorated over the length of his contract, the Titans have most of there money tied to the offensive line and defensive players.

[yuccaneers]

Lot has to to with LTBE likely to be earned incentives, it is determined by the league that that count towards the cap, but if not reached gives a team the rollover effect to the next season.

The hard cap this season was $116,729,000.00 million But because so many teams used the LTBE loophole was  a reason for so many teams spending wildly this season and front loading the contract in the first three season.

[Uncle Stan]

Yucc,

So in realty the numbers are not a true representation. They are incomplete.

[rowdie]

That is with his signing bonus factored in as it is prorated over the length of his contract, the Titans have most of there money tied to the offensive line and defensive players.

Oh yeah the guys in the trenches..... I luv those guys!

You remember where VY was drafted? ... ah I'll go look it up.  ... #3 over all! wow.