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Said Bills General Manager Doug Whaley: “We’re going to try to go after all our free agents that we have out there. Again, that all depends on what they perceive their value is compared to us, and we have a priority list, and we’ll go down that priority list. Either check them off or scratch them off. And we’ll just keep going down until we used up all our cap space and fulfill the needs that we have and hopefully get better as a team.”
While the league-wide, base-cap figure will be $133 million, the Bills’ “adjusted” cap is going to be about $150.8 million. That’s because the Bills had $17.8 million in unused space left over from last year’s cap that they were allowed to “roll over” into this year’s cap. Teams can roll over all or part of the left-over space. The Bills informed the league they were rolling over all of it, a league source confirmed. Why did they have so much space left over? They had rolled over extra space from the previous year, too (about $10 million). Rolling over space is a convenient and beneficial way to manage the cap and give a team more spending flexibility. The league average that was rolled over for 2014 was just over $6 million per team, according to the players’ union.
Teams are required to spend a minimum amount against the cap, under the terms of the CBA. For a four-year period from 2013 to 2016, each team must use up at least 89 percent of the league-wide cap space (not the team’s adjusted cap space). The Bills used up 94 percent of the base cap space in 2013 and already are at 94 percent this year.
How do the Bills stand in real cash spending? In 2013, it’s believed they were between 16th and 20th in the league. In 2012, they were third in the league, according to ESPN senior writer John Clayton. Buffalo spent about $18 million over the cap in real cash that season. In 2011, they were about 16th. The Bills are slightly over the cap in cash spending since 2009.
Originally Posted by pmoon6 
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