Or maybe the fact that you're flipping burgers instead of ledger pages is cause for skepticism.Maybe they oughta heed the burger flipper who has passed the Wisconsin CPAs.
Kidding aside, the cap can be cooked - to a limit - but it is real. The Packers are dealing with, if not a cap hell, a very very warm cap situation this year. It improves next year but they will still have Bahktiari, Aaron Jones, Preston Smith, and Devondre Campbell contracts to decide about keeping or cutting, and the ramifications.
Also - void years matter. They are still paying for that cap cooking, and not just Aaron Rodgers. Adiran Amos counts $8M against the cap this year, Dean Lowry $3M. If you think that's inconsequential, think about what that cap space could have done for them this year. Dead cap space is space you can't use to improve your team this year and in the future. It matters, and is why they have a $40M starting offense, and why they are operating overall on about 70% of their cap. SIXTYSIX million of their 226M cap is dead money; if you're trying to sign players that's a significant disadvantage compared to other teams who might be after the same players.
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