Austin Bonta

So if you can take current cap dollars and shove them into future years when the cap is higher, the relative impact of that cap dollar is lesser.

That dollar I would take this year means less in a future year because the cap keeps going up and up.

So that's the key.

If we ever get to the point where the cap starts going down, kicking the can becomes a problem.

And we may get back to one of those times.

I remember we used to hear the term salary cap purgatory.

There would be teams that like, you know what, we're just screwed this year.

I'm going to deal with it.

And next year we'll be back.

But look at the Broncos.

They got to the brink of the Super Bowl.

in the year that they were taking the bulk, I believe.

It's either the bulk or close to the bulk.

It's either 30 or 50 million that they had in dead money for Russell Wilson.

So you can find ways around it.

That's what these folks get paid to do.

And yeah, they like to say, oh no, oh no, how are we ever going to do it?

And then they do it.

And it's really not as complicated as they would have us think.

And maybe they have us think that so we're all impressed when they finally figure it out.