Last week, we noted with excitement that the Cantor Gaming sportsbooks in Las Vegas had posted lines for the first 16 weeks of the NFL season. In our hearts we longed to see the team over/under lines get posted for public consumption. It's the first great look of the year into how the betting public really feels about the league's teams, and it was actually a spot of improbable profit for us last season. Last year, since we weren't living in Vegas, we could only dream about the joy of seeing a fresh year's lines go live and sprinting out to the casino to get our action down.

On Wednesday morning, we were awoken by a flood of joyful texts from fellow degenerates. Cantor had pushed the first set of over-under team bets onto the boards in their Vegas books. Was it like Christmas? Well, it was like Christmas if you were to wake up, run downstairs, and give your money to someone to then get gifts eight months later. While an offshore bookmaker had published lines with small maximum bets beforehand, the Cantor sportsbooks at the Venetian, Palms, Tropicana, and other Vegas casinos were again the first ones to get one of the year's most tantalizing opportunities up for action.

Phew. Two pieces into our NFL free agency preview and we've knocked off the 16 teams who are unlikely to spend all that much this month, which yields the exciting leftovers that we'll sift through over the next two days: the 16 teams we expect to do the bulk of the work in this year's marketplace. These are the teams with both money to burn and reasons to spend it, although NFL teams have never required either to justify their pursuits.

For each of the remaining teams, we're going to identify the types of players they need to target in terms of age, pedigree, and cost. Some teams need to target one high-profile player at a particular position and save their money if they don't end up with him; others just desperately need to upgrade their roster and throw money at a variety of players. The good news is that the NFL finally confirmed the 2012 salary cap figure this weekend at $120.6 million, so we now have an idea of each team's salary-cap space heading into the free agent period, courtesy of Pro Football Talk. We've also adjusted each team's cap figure by the $1.6 million they received as part of Monday's sanctions against the Redskins and Cowboys.