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I believe the right number would be the sum total of the next 4 future caps divided by the average length of contract (4); but then of course you might look at how much you're willing to devote to each position, especially at QB.Another way to imagine this is that the true cap number is whatever the cap number is going to be three or four years from now, rather than what it's listed at today. So you can restructure deals to fit today on the basis that the additional cost in future years will be a similar percentage of the cap, and that's your real limiting number. So if the cap this year is $200m, and it's projected to be $250 by 2025, then realistically you can finagle the money around a $250m cap THIS year with the right accounting.
Like you said, this is flexibility, but it still doesn't mean that Kraft could spend a billion dollars per year on players and somehow "make it work" under the cap. There will always be a limit, it's just higher than the official cap number in a given year.
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