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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mradtke66" data-source="post: 1094835" data-attributes="member: 4199">Salary cap is and is not.  If the player is high on the good/special scale, teams find a way to keep them.  They say they were cut for cap reasons, but it's much more "they aren't good enough to justify the contract" not that there isn't room.  You can always make room with tricks.  Yes you have to pay the piper eventually, which is why they employ those tricks for the special players.Similarly, if you have a young player who is better than the veteran, the question becomes were they ever actually that good?  Have they started to slip?This is a non-zero list, but it's pretty small in practice.  And then, why does the player refuse to play for the old team?  It's not a given, there are certainly poorly ran teams, but maybe the player is the problem?I think all free agents are "bad deals" because their pay is elevated.  You now have all 32 teams bidding on him.  His cash-value will never be higher.  The additional question, if not an outright red flag, is wondering why they made it to FA.</blockquote>

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