The bad news for the Ravens: they missed making the Super Bowl in 2011-12 by mere inches... The good news---their salary cap management makes an even brighter 2012-13 possible...“We do a good job of looking at our cost today and then our cost in the future and we try to balance both of them,” General Manager Ozzie Newsome said in a recent interview with Garett Downing of the Ravens NFL.com media department.
The 2012 salary cap has not yet been set, but the projection is that it will be between $121-125 million. The cap is adjusted annually based on the league’s revenues. When asked how much cap flexibility the Ravens would have in free agency, Newsome did not offer financial specifics.
“We will be able to put as competitive a football team on the field as we need to be able to compete with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Cleveland – because that’s where it starts,” he said.
One way to free up cap space is to use younger players in favor of more expensive veterans. The Ravens have gone...
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