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There is an explanation Cousin. The new TV deal in 2022 is going to boost the CAP. If we push contracts until the 2022 season we can absorb that hit, gather "groceries" now, and keep under the CAP.Right, the issue becomes how much do you want to push into future years.
Pretty much every player will let you convert their salary into a signing bonus, that gives the player instant cash instead of waiting for game checks.
Then you get to pro-rate over three years, but now have a bigger cap hit if/when you cut the player in the next 3 years.
So the team tries to "pay as it goes" but if it finds someone they think is a difference maker like Trent Williams they are willing to push out the problem to future years.
KC's window is a year or two, by three years out a lot of big future cap hits they are taking now will be impossible to ignore.
There are Teams with big QB contracts heading down the road that could be in trouble CAP relief or not.
I think it was just pure luck that the CAP was lowered and we happened to have the dollars to spend. We'll take it!
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