Jaguars released WR Christian Kirk

Taker597 said

NFL teams don't have to spend 89% of their salary cap. The salary cap floor does not apply to any single season, only to the entire 4 year period. That means that not being in compliance in any single year is not going to be a problem for any team. Only if a team has so chronically underspent that they managed to still be below 89% over the entire four-year period, will they be held accountable.

Even so, there's no additional punishment beyond "spend the extra money." If the team hasn't spent 89% of the salary cap over that period, they'll have to fork over the difference to the NFLPA. That's not ideal, of course, but it's not exactly a huge incentive to just overspend, either.

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You say that as if spending 89% of your cap on a rolling 4 year average is some easy feat, especially for a team that hasn’t drafted incredibly well.

I don’t understand why this is worth debating. Teams with tons of cap space tend to overspend all the time and typically overspending in free agency is a trap.

You can find the occasional stud but usually the best free agents are the Baun types, the bargains who you get to see thrive in your environment before paying them the true big bucks.

Watch what happens this off-season. There will be more head scratchers from those teams loaded with space once most of the week 1ers are gone.

I mean, JAX signed a WR without a single 1,000 yard season to his name to a 4-year $72m contract two years ago and are now cutting him. It’s a cautionary tale IMO.