2025 salary cap expected to be 5-10 million higher than previous estimates (merged)

Having cap space if good, but the danger of having that kind of cap space is what happened in Jacksonville a few years ago when they ended up blowing all that money on guys that ended up getting more than they should have because their agents knew Jacksonville had all that cap space. So they would just force Jacksonville to outbid other teams a pay more than the players are worth. If you have that kind of cap space, you have to decide what players or worth and refuse to go over it otherwise the agents are going to use your team as the Golden Goose.
Yeah, no teams should have that kind of cap space. That is the sign of a reset gone entirely wrong.

Let's look at the successful teams though. There are five 2024 playoff teams that have are between $5m and $20m in cap space in 2025 (Eagles, Ravens, Bucs, Chiefs and Texans). Only one playoff team has negative cap space, the Bills. All of the rest have $40m+ in 2025 cap space.

Of the non playoff teams with negative cap, Seattle and Atlanta can restructure a single player each and be under tomorrow. The Saints and the Browns are the only bad teams with super high cap numbers and the Browns have the excuse of signing the worst contract in NFL history and are $20m less in the hole than the Saints.

I think the merits, or lack thereof, the Saints cap plan are evident regardless if a few people want to continue to defend them.