ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- There are snug caps, really snug caps -- as in crush-your-temples snug -- and there is the salary cap the Denver Broncos currently wear.
Just before free agency opened earlier this month, the Broncos were over the salary cap. But then quarterback Peyton Manning retired and the Broncos released three veteran players -- Louis Vasquez, Owen Daniels and Aaron Brewer -- to start free agency. After signing tackles Donald Stephenson and Russell Okung, matching an offer sheet from the Miami Dolphins to keep running back C.