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I always felt that Mike Tannenbaum was a salary cap expert, but not a great football talent evaluator.
As the Jets' salary cap expert in 1998, he formulated such a complicated deal for Curtis Martin that it became impossible for the New England Patriots to match it.
That would be the most any team has paid since the league instituted the luxury tax in 2002-3, according to figures provided by the cap expert Larry Coon.
"So it adds another $21.25 million in consequences," said Tom Penn, a former assistant general manager for the Portland Trail Blazers who now works as a cap expert for ESPN.
Also in the bracket of the double-elimination, 12-person field was Jessica Gelman, an executive with the Kraft Analytics Group who co-founded the conference, and Mike Zarren, the Boston Celtics' assistant general manager and salary cap expert.
"Not to be alarmist, but in terms of some of the contracts they signed their players to, the Jets have done some of the worst deal making I've seen of any team in the last four years," the salary cap expert Terry O'Neil said.
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GMs and cap experts said teams should limit the combined cap number for their top eight or so players to around $80 million, so there is around $100 million available for the rest of the roster, including practice squad and injured players.
And make no mistake, some of this will affect the Jets' caliber of play for the next two to three years, according to several salary cap experts and N.F.L. general managers.
"The best answer is I have access to some authoritative sources," said Coon, describing a network of cap experts inside and outside of the league, some who advise him and some who consult him.
But another key part of the overall symposium is the lecture series in which guest speakers, from current and former coaches, to salary cap experts, to members of the news media, address hundreds of assistant coaches to discuss ways to make their jobs easier.
Suddenly, everyone is a salary-cap expert, an economist, a scout and a chief executive.
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