BakoSaint

Don't tell me what I can and cannot fathom you insufferable glob of human trash. Just like your mother could fathom selling herself for a $20 bill I can fathom exactly the dynamics involved in the modern salary cap. Any team can always lived on borrowed money to dig out of debt for other borrowed money and field a .500-ish team. But living on borrowed money required contracts structured in a way where all your big gambles are 'un-cut-able' which leads to zombie cap spend on schlubs like Michael Thomas and Andrus Peat who don't contribute but you can't afford to move on. Whey you are so leveraged you depend on restructuring every big contract to get under the cap, which makes all the dead cap hits if you cut them giant, you can't even afford to pay your stars what the contract said each year, so paying more than that to get out of the contracts long term is impossible, so you become the team that would see Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Antonio Brown, Ezekiel Elliot, etc through, not just to the end of their disaster contracts that other teams cut, but that would actually extend them to stay longer to soften the cap hits. You just can't win that way long term.

Also, spending the 2023 cap in 2022 and spending the 2024 cap in 2023 may put you on a level playing field with other teams, maybe even give you 10% more to spend (though like I said, you will be spending a lot of it on bad decisions you can't escape like Peat and Thomas, so really its a bad deal), but level playing field gets you .500 not a ring. A team that spent their 2022 salary cap to fund 2022 has an option we don't have. If they think 2023 is their year, they can spend the 2023 cap and the 2024 cap in 2023. They can convert from their way to our way, and in that leap year or two, they can spend more than you could normally spend in either way. They can make a run, win the race for a ring, and then walk it off and rebuild. By always being leveraged to the max, we can't make a run by going into leverage when the window is there and making a lot of additions all at once around a young core. Thats how most rings are won these days, and you missed it idolizing looming and spanking your monkey about a 13yo ring.

What you don't seem to get, when you see other teams 'imitating our brilliant strategy' is that they are not doing it long term, they are trying to time a window. They are young and have cap room so they max out and they leverage up and they try to time the window. Often they can get a ring. When the leverage is too much, and the see a decline like going from 12-4 to 9-8 to 7-10, they rebuild and cut their bad contracts and aging players and stockpile some draft picks. Then they do it all again. But Mickey Loomis can't fathom this any more than he can fathom why other people don't start drinking at breakfast.

A good example of logical thinking is this piece on the Rams. They are doing exactly what I explain.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-to-pull-back/