03-21-2022, 02:07 PM
(03-21-2022, 01:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: BTW One of the big reasons the Bengals were able to sign the guys they wanted this year is that they were 28th in "dead cap" space this year. So maybe all they guys saying "Cap does not matter" need to explain to me why all these other teams have dead cap space that they can not use? How does that make them smarter than the Bengals?
If you commit to going the dead cap route, cap does not matter but you have to be committed to buying cap space each year with cash (This is what the Saints have done for 5+ years). You can always buy cap through mechanisms like restructures and void years. The Bengals go the route of not wanting to have to spend cash to fix their cap like other teams so we are a bit more conservative at times, but it makes it so we don't need to use these tricks to manipulate the cap.
