Assessing the Cap

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(03-29-2022, 05:22 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: As for the earlier discussion, I think an easy way to see teams struggling with the cap is when you see their inability to sign their own or trade them. The Saints have no franchise QB (expensive) on their roster but still lost some of their best players the past few years, this year an all pro LT and an all pro safety off the top my head. KC traded all pro Hill and let Mathieu walk, cut a starting LB and let other receivers walk as well. The Packers traded all pro Adams. They don't do these moves if they can afford the players in the future.

KC let Mathieu walk and signed Justin Reid to $10.5m/yr deal to replace him. I think letting Mathieu walk was about more than money. Also I don't think trading Hill was about a lack of cap space either. There's just no world that exists where a single WR is worth $30m/yr. They also signed a $10m/yr WR and if PFF has any basis, the "starting LB" they cut was graded at 44.1 in 2021, 50.5 in 2020, and 48.8 in 2019.

The Packers offered Adams more money than the Raiders, so that wasn't about cap struggle either, he just wanted to leave.

You're putting a whole lot of things together as evidence of struggling with the cap, but most of them simply... aren't. The Bengals didn't struggle with the cap, and they "cut a starting C". Sometimes you just want someone else.