Atlanta’s going to make cuts. You know that, I know that, and Thomas Dimitroff certainly knows that. He and Rich McKay have insisted early and will insist often that the Falcons won’t find themselves short on cap space, but yesterday he was also quite candid about where that money is going to come from.
The Falcons aren’t in cap hell after restructuring Grady Jarrett and Matt Ryan’s deals to free up some space, but they still barely have enough cap space to pay their entire rookie class, much less free agents. That cash will have to come from veterans with sizeable contracts, for better or for worse.