NFL taking away Redskins cap space

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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Not sure how. The NFL has to approve of the contracts right? So not sure how they could punish them for something they approved?

But while most teams opted not to break the bank in a season without a banker, the NFL instructed teams not to use the uncapped years as a way to dump money in order to ensure that cap numbers in years with a salary cap would be lower.

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