Nate Taylor with a lot of middle-to-big-sized news yesterday.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

Here's the thing though, as much as everyone jumps for joy with the "the cap is rising" stuff, they fail to mention that player salaries do as well.

Yup.

It's why I caution folks against using the 'available cap space' approach.

Look at where we are relative to the league. And then look at where we are in terms of players under contract for next season.

Because the cap going up by 15% means that every agent in the world is gonna start with 2022PlayerX+15% as his opening salvo.

Those guys do this for a living - they ain't stupid.

If we have $40 million in cap space and there are 20 teams in the league who have more than that (or around that and 5 more players under contract than we do), then we're still not going to be in a position to be major players in the FA market.

The only ENORMOUS advantage we have over everyone else when it comes to the rising cap is that our All-Universe Quarterback is under contract for a decade at figures that would be nearly manageable under the present cap figures.

The surplus value built into his deal is going to be so absurd as to almost require that we go back to the table with him at some point in the next 3-5 years like we did with Kelce this year.