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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 768101">Thanks for the acknowlegement.One thing you can take to the bank (pun intended):  over the long haul, cash that's paid in whatever form hits the cap sooner or later.  You'll never find a free lunch on that score.Whether it's a signing bonus cash payment hitting the cap 5 years down the road, guaranteed pay for seasons not played after a guy is cut, a roster bonus earned, an "unlikely to be earned" incentive that is actually earned, or dead cap in any form which includes some those above circumstance, an injury settlement--all those things are cash paid that hits the cap sooner or later.  Excluding current future cap liabilities from bonuses and guarantees, cash and cap are equal.The only exception is those post season game bonuses that every player gets and that funky post season performance bonus pool both evidently paid out of some league fund.  I've never studied the hows and why's of the latter as it appears to operate under some mystery formulas and has no affect on the cap:<a href="http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2018/03/14/performance-pays-off-packers-linebacker-blake-martinez/426014002/" target="_blank">http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2018/03/14/performance-pays-off-packers-linebacker-blake-martinez/426014002/</a></blockquote>

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