Really, the only looming issue is Dak's deal. We certainly still are going to want five years but may have a bit less leverage as the tag will eat far more of the cap than biting the bullet on a four year deal.
I'm a bit skeptical that the cap will go as low as the minimum though. If there is a season, I'd be surprised there aren't discussions with networks to diversify their coverage as they are bound to be losing money without as much college football. If the league went to each network and offered to move a game each week to Saturdays to broaden broadcast opportunities, that could generate a ton of money to offset attendance. If there is one thing that baseball showed us, a hell of a lot more people will be watching sports if it is available.
No doubt.
I fully expect a deal around 185-190M for next year's cap AT WORST.
NFL teams weren't going to jeapordize a season and neither were players.
There's actually more money to be spent now on sports with less viable entertainment options.
And masked crowds will turn out for sure and mask restrictions may well be lifted by the playoffs.
DAL has options to create cap space and people need to understand chronology when discussing cap.
DAL can create space, tag Dak, extend Dak(trade him or remove tag in insanely low chance that occurs), sign FA and sign draft class.
Cap Armageddon folks assume you need all the cap at once. you don't.
If you say eat all 37.7M for Dak next year for some reason it's really no different than eating 20M of other guys(that you rolled over) and 18M for an extended Dak.
Someones money was always going to be lower versus the cap with higher hits later.
Now could it be an issue if say this carried on for 3 years? Sure.
Is that likely? VERY VERY unlikely.
We've faced this now once in the last 50 years.
End of day numbers folks need to know is 140M. That's how much of the DAL scheduled cap charge is base salaries which can be finessed endlessly.
