Every summer, we see a fun dance among all 30 teams as team payrolls begin to fluctuate wildly and we see the teams both at the top and bottom of the spending range fall outside of what would be regular season cap compliance during summer months for several reasons. The reasons are always good, as are the questions we see every year: What happens if a team simply doesn't become compliant by the start of the season? Well that's what we're going to take a look at today.
Compliance, Timelines and Wiggle-Room
The good news for teams who have a lot of people to re-sign and for those who have little space left every year is that the Salary cap almost doesn't count during the offseason.