{"id":29332,"date":"2025-02-28T02:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29332"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:05:19","slug":"breaking-cowboys-100-million-spending-spree-gets-boost-with-new-official-nfl-cap-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29332","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys $100 Million Spending Spree Gets Boost With New Official NFL Cap Number.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m-detail-header--dek\">We do have a new official number from the NFL. The league is increasing its salary cap to $279.2 million per team. What&#8217;s that do for Jerry Jones&#8217; Cowboys?<\/div>\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--flexbox\">\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--meta\">\n<div class=\"m-description--list\">\n<p>FRISCO &#8211; It&#8217;s not official yet that the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0are going to go on a spending spree with the $100 million they can create in 2025 cap room.<\/p>\n<p>But as of Thursday, we do have a new official number from the\u00a0NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The league is increasing its salary cap to $279.2 million per team.<\/p>\n<p>That marks an increase of $23.8 million over the previous year &#8230; though we should note that in the calculations we&#8217;ve been doing for months, it does not change much about what we&#8217;ve predicted Dallas can (will?) do.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\" data-zone-count=\"2\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-7f3a392ff00a48ecb039d63c029ee02d\" data-google-query-id=\"CLjPwoCh5YsDFT-K6QUdUXQGLA\" data-ad-size=\"300x250\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_2__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_2\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ffb557178bc0d90bea850ffa119a3240.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-41\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The league&#8217;s recent announcement of a bigger salary cap for the 2025 season was already issued, with the NFL saying that the cap will increase somewhere between $277-281 million, up about $22 million per team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile &#8230; The national narrative is that the Cowboys are perpetually in &#8220;salary cap Hell,&#8221; but we have been outlining for months how they could have as much as $100 million worth of room with a couple of shrewd moves. (See below.)<\/p>\n<p>All along &#8211; again, dating back to CowboysCountry.com&#8217;s original reporting in February 2024 &#8211; this was about 2024 being a year that wouldn&#8217;t be about the Joneses investing resources, choosing instead to &#8220;keep our powder dry&#8221; for a quick and timely &#8220;Blow It Up&#8221; and remodel for 2025.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\" data-zone-count=\"2\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-b4a72c1ee3be4f4fb0b75c908bfd2951\" data-google-query-id=\"CJHj04Ch5YsDFTSC6QUdsGwUmw\" data-ad-size=\"adhesion\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_6__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_6\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ffb557178bc0d90bea850ffa119a3240.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-41\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"7\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And now 2025 is here. And so is the skepticism and cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Blow It Up&#8221; plan happened. And while there are no guarantees that this will work .. the resources are available.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know that the Cowboys will buy wisely 2025\u00a0NFL\u00a0free agency. Until it starts unfolding, and soon, we can&#8217;t even promise that they will buy at all.<\/p>\n<p>But factually, it is perfectly clear that Dallas set itself up to have in the range of a whopping $100 million in cap room for this upcoming season. In Dallas&#8217; case, there will be a 2024 carryover of $25 million (cap space &#8220;powder&#8221; the Joneses purposely did not use this year). &#8230; and that $25 million can be tacked onto the $279.2 million to give the Cowboys an effective cap of over $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>Now Jerry and Stephen just need to go shopping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do have a new official number from the NFL. 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