Yes but we are $81.5m over the 2025 cap. The second most spendy team in 2025 cap in the NFL is the Browns at $3.5m over the 2025 cap, so we are spending 95% of the entire NFL's future over budget spending to achieve mediocrity. We are paying Kobe Steak Prices for School Cafeteria Hamburger. Its not sustainable and its not success. We need a reset.

Not only are we 2-2, we are 2-2 with an 0-2 streak, 3rd place in our division, injuries stacking up because we are trying to play smash mouth football with one 34yo mouth smasher and a bunch of speedy powder puffs, and things are trending to below .500 not above. Even if we finish 9-8 its not success.

Ultimately the goal is to win championships, and I dont think we win those carrying so much cap for guys like Ram and Jordan who need to retire. So we need some level of rebuild to clean up the cap.

Part of the point is that this sort of rebuild was not possible last year. We had to restructure most players to get under the cap. Carr's salary was guaranteed. Anyone we cut came with giant dead cap hits. We had no options. This year if this continue to decline we do have an option. We can get out of bad contracts and get under the cap. Its good to have options. If we get on a winning streak and win 10 games we dont have to go this route. But its good to have the option if we lose 10 games.

Follow this line and click over to 2025 to get a sense of our cap situation compared to the rest of the league. Nobody else is going over future caps like we are, and the teams that are not doing it are the ones going to the playoffs. Do you want to go to the playoffs, ever? If we restructure everyone to get under the cap and just kick the can, more of the same will lead to more of the same.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space