Assessing the Cap

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(03-21-2022, 02:07 PM)Au165 Wrote: 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't "buy" cap space.  You can just pay to move it to later years.

And "dead cap" does matter.  This year the Saints have $29 million in dead cap space while the Bengals have only $4.6 million.  So no matter what moves the Saints do to create more "cap space" the fact is that they are starting out almost $25 million behind the Bengals.  So even if they somehow come up with the same "cap space" it means they are spending $25 million less than the Bengals in payments to players on their roster.