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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 616087">It's certainly possible to reduce the early-year cap hits with big signing bonuses, or extending star players with more signing bonuses, but there is a limit.  If one is already significantly over the cap, the mortgage placed on the future is that much larger.  It would create a lot of dead cap risk in the event of player decline, whereas Thompson limits dead cap as much as any GM in the league, sometimes at the expense of fielding players he might prefer to replace.I don't think any of this is "doomsdayish" in the least (as if anybody is following this anymore)...it presents the plausible reality that going forward, starting in the next off season, this will not be Packer business as usual.  By itself, the $130 mil cap charge already on the books for 2016 (the year for a run in my opinion) creates a high bar to get over going forward.</blockquote>

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