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Welcome to the Salary Cap Inferno, the bad place where teams are punished for their financial sins of the past.
NFL free agency is fast approaching, and while some teams are getting ready for a spending spree, others find themselves in financial H-E Double Hockey Sticks. Instead of bidding on big names and hoping to get better, they'll be forced to let their own free agents go, release or restructure the contracts of some of their starters and hope the austerity program doesn't make them significantly worse.
There's more to the Cap Inferno than just being low on cap space.