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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 967082" data-attributes="member: 13032">And apparently the longer Rodgers plays, the bigger the hit when he finally quits.  I don't really understand.  If he plays out a contract, why would there be dead money the year after.  I'm sure Cap has the answer to this.  I admit to being confused by the details of the cap system.  It's a little Orwellian.  "Well we're $10 mil over cap but we'll rework a contract, give a player a huge raise, and then push the actual cap hit out.  Then the $10 mil over cap will go to zero."  Huh?Something like that.  It's obvious though that this can't go on forever.  Well, I don't think it can.  So at some point the Packers have to cover the dead cap with a lot of cuts and a pretty big regression in play, right?  It sounds like some type of rebuild would then be in order.  Ouch.</blockquote>

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