I don't know how to locate those posts of mine.
Shortly after I posted them, the website that has the cap space figure started charging premium to pull up their content so I don't have a way to look for the numbers now.
Another thing that I came across, however, is the Pats in 2019.
Brady came into the season with a high salary/cap charge, but they reworked his contract.
DEARBORN, Michigan -- We know that Tom Brady's contract extension is really, for all intents and purposes, just a raise for 2019. We also know that the years tacked onto Brady's deal allow the Patriots to reduce his salary-cap hit for 2019. What we don't know is how the Patriots might plan to...
www.nbcsports.com
Soon afterward, they used that money to sign Antonio Brown for 15M, including 9M in singing bonus.
They did book 4.5M of that figure for 2020, but that still meant they were spending 10.5M on Brown.
They cut Brown 11 days later and never needed him to win the SB.
In another word, had they not redone Brady's contract, he would have occupied more than 13% of the cap space.