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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
What’s the truth about the cap scandal? The Broncos claim it gave them no competitive advantage, and yet Elway took a much lower cap hit in those years than peers like Marino. Plus they deferred huge payments to Davis.
Of course, their excuse is that Bowlen needed the extra dough to fund the stadium, but I’m not sure how that excuses circumvention of the cap.
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The truth is they knew they were cheating. Al Davis called them out on it as they were doing it. He was right. The NFL acknowledged it a few years later and fined them and stripped draft picks. Bottom line, they don't win the Super Bowl without cheating the salary cap so they could pay Elway and Davis, which just happened to be their best two players.