Let's talk salary cap

Rouxble said

The claim is made that the cap doesn't limit us, but we are limited more than every other team, that is the why it matters who is last. I've pointed out in another thread that we are 25th in actual spending despite having the least cap space available, that illustrates the limitation more than anything else.

Also, most of the league isn't doing that hypothetical thing because they don't need to, and they value the flexibility that not being loaded down with dead money affords a team. The strategy is what it is, but without a doubt the cap creates constraints on teams. We've let enough players leave for mid-tier contracts to see them flourish on other teams while we've signed cheaper "upgrades" that everyone wants to show the door.

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There we go again…using the team’s intentional decision to roll things back against them. You ignore that conveniently when saying we are 25th in spending.

No one has claimed we have found some hidden strategy. My claim is actually the opposite…it doesn’t matter (at least not to the doom and gloom degree most people here make it out to be). We aren’t doing some egregious thing; we just manage our books differently with different looking consequences that mirror everyone else’s end result when you don’t pick the right people.

And again, we aren’t the only team losing free agents; everyone does, including teams that have $50m-plus of cap space every offseason.

Cap space isn’t some magic pill to end all ails. Some of the worst teams in the league have the most cap space annually.

Too many people are confusing “Flat out poor or regrettable personnel decisions” with cap restrictions.