Hello, welcome back to Inside the Data on Inside the Birds.

I'm Jeff Mosher.

And of course, when we're talking data and analytics, we got with us, Sam Finkel,

our data and analytics specialist.

We do this podcast, I believe now once once a year for the last few years,

where Sam, you give the update on the salary cap increase in the NFL,

and you put into sort of layman's terms because money can get very wonky,

what that means for the Eagles and whatever situation they're currently in.

I always enjoy it because I always feel like it gives us good perspective on how the Eagles do

business and you sort of get an appreciation for certain things, including a willingness to make

mistakes. We'll get into that. And then, you know, I've been covering the team for,

God, this will be 20-something years now, 21, 22 years. So you also get an idea of how they like

to do things differently than the rest of the NFL. Absolutely. We're definitely going to get into that

for sure. Sure. And then I guess the byproduct of this is just how absurdly wealthy the NFL is and how much money that it makes for the cap to jump the way it does every year, right?

Yeah, absolutely. Golden goose.

Golden goose.

Yeah. The NFL is pretty good at making money.

Yeah, they do a pretty good job of it.

They'll take their pot shots for a bad bunny halftime concert for the exchange of all the money that they do it they do a pretty good job of it they'll take their pot shots for a bad bunny

halftime concert for the exchange of all the money that they made and all the social media

presence they got out of it oh absolutely yeah these guys know what they're doing absolutely

all right so um i will share the screen in a minute but just for before we start, I know when we talk about salary cap information, you always want to make the distinction about what is out there versus what the reality is.

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