Why do different teams have different salary caps?
They don’t have different salary caps, it just seems that way because of the different cash-over-cap amounts they spend and push into the future. It gives the high-revenue teams a decided advantage over the low-revenue teams, and that’s why I favor a hard cap. I’d like to see teams have to cap in the year what they pay in the year. That’s a true cap. Of course, the players would never agree to it now, so it’s a waste of time to think it could happen, but I remember the players being OK with that idea in the very beginning and it was the owners that favored a soft cap.