Ever since the Buffalo Bills’ current cap situation started to come into focus, maybe a year or so ago, this comment seems to come up fairly often:
“We’re not going to spend all this cap space anyways, so who cares if we overspend on a player? It doesn’t matter, we can afford it, and it’s not going to stop us from making any other moves.”
Maybe it does matter.
In the beginning of the salary cap era, cap dollars were “use it or lose it”—if you didn’t spend the money in the current year, the ability to spend it was lost.