salary cap hell!

Cap hell is very real but the facepalmers still don’t get it after all these years.

Cap is a big reason why we have terrible OL & DL. We were not able to fix awful drafts on both lines because we had no space. We signed two replacement level interior DLs, a bunch of no name OLs, and that’s it. Too bad, we needed pass rush and at least one more decent OL.

Next year we have 100 millions allocated to just 5 players (the top paid ones besides DK) who do not deserve that kind of money anymore: Ram 27, Cam 23, Kamara 18, DD 18, Taysom 15.
How do you fix that? Restructure. Restructuring means basically leaving things as they are, rather than falling into debt. In other words, every year we have to pay players way more than their actual value, much more than a team with a healthy cap that can cut players pretty anytime and avoid restructurings.
That’s how you lose games.

Drafts circa 2015-2020 kept us alive with a steady influx of cheap young players, allowing good FA signings, but it’s plain to see that it’s no longer the case. We have 4-5 good young defenders, 2-3 good young receivers, and that’s it. The rest, we overpay or get mediocre contribution.