Elvis' 2025 cap and roster cleanup proposal

livefromDC said
Right on cue. And this is why I stay away from salary cap discussion threads. It always leads to these oversimplifications. And the oversimplification always leads to the rationale that you have to cut players until you're under the cap.

Tanking to build is just not a viable solution to winning in the NFL. And having $120 million in cap space doesn't help you become a contender either. We saw Jacksonville give out insane contract amounts for a couple years. We're going to see New England do it soon as well. Because under all of the doom and gloom of having no cap space is the reality that you also have to spend a certain amount of the rolling 5 year cap space as well. These shallow analogies don't take into account how complicated the cap is and perhaps more importantly, the importance of the cost of talent in the league.

Talk about oversimplifications. Maybe you see it that way, but others do not. In fact MOST NFL teams don't see it the way you do. Most of them are leaving themselves the cap space and flexibility to pivot away from players when they need to. Only the Browns have done to their cap what we've done and they are openly mocked for the contract that put them there. And yet they are still $24m less in the hole that the Saints are. And those Jaguars insane contracts have them sitting $32m above the cap with room for their new coach to work while Kellen Moore is stuck with a bunch of old players and an over priced QB.