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Originally Posted by blankall
Hard to blame all the GMs. The cap staying stagnant for multiple years was pretty unprecedented. When you're building a championship team, you can't just keep millions in cap space open just incase there's a global pandemic.
There will definitely be an increase in cap. The teams are currently paying back the cap they used during Covid, where they had to go into the red. There as about $1.5 billion in escrow debt that needed to be paid back, which will occur this year. After that the cap automatically goes up based on current revenue.
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Agree, not blaming them for unforeseen things. But at the same time, they have made the commitments they have to live with, and that includes all contracts signed in the last couple of years (which may be accepting pain today while looking forward to tomorrow)
Last year all teams were cap compliant (for the most part)
It is interesting how little space they have. If you look at capfriendly, as Robbob noted, 12 of 32 teams are over the cap and 19 are under a million
Taking that a step further, lots of teams are well under their contract limits. If you consider minimum contract value, something like only 6-8 teams could have their 50 contracts and be compliant