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The NBA has their system set-up so that the team can offer the most or often have an ability to match other team's options.

Do you think that it would help or hinder if the NFL adopted a provision that gave the home team the ability to offer a percentage more than the max to their own players where it only counted against the cap at the max value? This would reward teams who draft well, allowing them to retain their players without making the player make a financial decision in order to stay. I'm not sure that it would be fair at all to do any less than the max, though.

Thing is teams don't really try to retain.

The game is to hope to get great productivity on rookie contracts and then draft again.

Sure for franchise players they'll give out big extensions but it's only for a couple of guys.

Broncos have to extend Von Miller and Ostweiler this offseason. They also have a few other starters too.

Doubtful they can extend all of them.

And you figure they'd have extended Miller by now instead of letting him finish his contract year without a deal.

The Cap is supposed to go up by 1.5 more than projected due to an accounting check. The owners categorized some of the ticket sales that was supposed to go to the players as an exception that only went to the owners.

http://www.patspulpit.com/2016/2/23/11097494/nfl-owners-caught-trying-to-hide-millions-of-revenue-dollars-from