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The Patriot's certainly won't have to do the things they do to get under the cap in the current system - and that freedom certainly helps administratively - but I think they'll spend as wisely as they always have.
Maybe the cap flexibility does allow them to sign a player they might not otherwise - though there's ALWAYS things that can be done to find cap space if there's a guy they want... so I don't see that changing dramatically.
Maybe they don't have to cut guys who are deemed salary cap liabilities - but those are usually role players anyway
Obviously it's not a hinderance to the Patriots to be without a cap - my concern is that it benefits other teams MORE than it does the Pats - especially those that have a history of spending UNWISELY as there's no longer the same negative impact to those teams
I think there is one major way an uncapped system helps the PAts and other elite teams that draft well. I need to explain as an example for it to make sense.
If you have a capped league, essentially all of the talent is spread out among 32 teams. The cost of the talent on each team is virtually the same. However the value of the talent is very different.
If you took the entire league and tore up all of the contracts, then, under the exact same cap, every player signed as a free agent, and then looked back at the roster before you made everyone a free agent, you would find some teams had 150,000,000 of value on their 100,000,000 cap and others had 50,000,000.
What this causes is that you cannot keep good teams together as their players contracts mature (especially the rookie deals) under a hard cap. Without a cap, it would be easier for good teams to keep players, because under the current rules, the best teams are underpaying their players as a whole, so when they become free agents, you simply couldnt afford all of them.