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 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.

I think it was Paul Dehner, jr. that said something to the effect of:  "The Bengals strategy for cap manipulation is different, and one could argue that it makes the lows last longer, but it also makes the highs last longer...so if they are on a high, no one has a problem with it".  Thought that was pretty accurate.