2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

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Not sure if I understand your example. Over the cap means we don't sign anyone with cap space. Basically we resign our guys and others are brought by trade (with the exception of MLE and BAE).

I'm no cap expert, but I think you can keep one of their cap holds and sign another player into the remaining cap space. Obviously THJ has the larger hold, so if you keep his hold, you wouldn't have as much space as if you had kept Rich instead. 

To gain full cap space, you have to renounce all of your free agents, but then you run the risk of losing them all. 

If you keep a cap hold, you can sign that player last and go over the cap using their bird rights. You can't go over the cap to sign a free agent to whom you have no cap hold.