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Good read from Jack Duffin on why dead cap is not a bad thing.
Fans and the media worry far more about dead cap than they should. It isn't very relevant if I am honest in terms of previous years' signing and option bonuses. I would rather my team is spending much more than my rivals in a sustainable way in the pursuit of winning. It is like buying something on an interest-free credit card, you have more buying power but you then need to pay it off next year. If you spend 20% of your budget next year every year it is perfectly sustainable as long as your earnings (the salary cap) keep going up.
What you don't want to be doing is eating any guaranteed salary like they had to with Baker Mayfield to facilitate a trade. This is the type of dead cap you want to avoid as you are paying him cash not to play for your team.
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