Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht Talks Navigating The Salary Cap
Fielding a team that can compete in the NFL is no easy task. To make it easier on themselves, teams go out of their way to sign star players to massive deals in the hopes that game-changing plays can make a difference. However, that comes with a caveat. The more money you spend on big-name players, the less money you will have to even out across the rest of the roster — likely resulting in holes on your team.
Clearly, figuring out the salary cap isn't as easy as putting numbers to paper and making it work within a single given year or season. Leaning on a group or other specialist while working out the salary cap will only be beneficial for teams that are trying push the limits. After the pandemic, the salary cap dropped a whopping $16 million from $198.2 million to $182.5 million, and the results from that caused teams to have to rework contracts to get under the salary cap. The Buccaneers were also familiar with this, as they had to restructure contracts and still take on what was left from the roster following the Brady era. All in all, they ended up taking more than $80 million in dead money last season and another $56 million in dead money this season.
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