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Cash spending does not equal cap allocation.
The main reason the Patriots have been below average in cash spending was Tom Brady.
The focus on cash spending does not provide all of the cap allocation context for a team like the Patriots who uses incentives and active roster bonuses. For example, if a player does not earn his LTBE incentives and his LTBE active roster bonuses the Patriots would not have spent the cash after having allocated cap space on that player.
In 2017 Pats had to pay back 4.5M in borrowed cap space. Teams were allowed to borrow cap space in 2011/2012 as part of the transition to the new CBA. $4.5M gets you a couple of players. That $4.5M was not cash spending.
The main reason the Patriots have been below average in cash spending was Tom Brady.
The focus on cash spending does not provide all of the cap allocation context for a team like the Patriots who uses incentives and active roster bonuses. For example, if a player does not earn his LTBE incentives and his LTBE active roster bonuses the Patriots would not have spent the cash after having allocated cap space on that player.
In 2017 Pats had to pay back 4.5M in borrowed cap space. Teams were allowed to borrow cap space in 2011/2012 as part of the transition to the new CBA. $4.5M gets you a couple of players. That $4.5M was not cash spending.