The Falcons continually pushed their cap woes down the road in the twilight years of Dan Quinn and Thomas Dimitroff in Atlanta, trying to navigate a tough situation while remaining a contender. As we well know, the Falcons did not manage to contend, which is part of the reason both of those men currently do not work with the organization.
For all that, Atlanta may have made it through this offseason with only minor headaches if COVID-19 hadn’t showed up and wreaked havoc on the league’s financials. The cap plummeted heading into 2021, leaving the Falcons really hard up for cash, to the point where they had a budget-friendly offseason and are still sitting here in late May without the money to sign their draft class.