Earlier this week, an agent and a team salary cap manager drifted into hypothetical territory. His career earnings have been stifled through the salary cap system and through his own choice. Brady volunteers to leave money on the table every season by way of his annual salary, even considering the artificial cap brokered by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. Berri said he would expect market forces to affect the NFL in similar ways with no salary cap. In the uncapped Major League Baseball, “everyone has a salary cap,” said Brandt, who now writes a column for the MMQB.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2017 16:52 UTC