We hear constantly about how this team and that team and this other team and some other team that they can't sign so and so for big money because then they can't sign support players. How this team or that team is way over the cap and will lose tons of good players.
And on and on.
But how often does it ever happen? There are myriads of ways to handle the cap, you can't just take a players total salary and divide it by the number of years in the contract and divide that into the cap. Just doesn't work that way, there are bonuses that can be spread out over several years, outs after a couple of years, and on and on. Seems every year the Patriots are "cap strapped" and yet they continue to win Super Bowls.
The "cap casualty" is a myth in many cases, all the hand wringing and dire warnings of teams with one or two or three really high paid players and the rest of the team a bunch of scrubs is not reality...