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I'm worried. That's the teams fault though for not being able to manage the cap.
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Exactly.
The Redskins prove this year in and year out. And will again even with an 18 mil penalty. You can still field a competitive team with creative accounting.
For the idiotic retort 'oh the redskins have been awful we shouldn't be emulating them', they haven't been awful because they are cap-strapped and have no money to spend, they've been awful because they spend it wrong.
You can always find ways to sign whoever you want whenever you want. That doesn't mean we should hand out idiot contracts to people like Spencer and Doug Free.
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Keep parroting that for the next 10 years. Maybe cap hell will happen.
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Looks to me like its being pretty well managed though.
We're only avoiding "cap hell" THIS YEAR by having to turn non-guaranteed money into guaranteed money.
Am I wrong?
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You've been crowing this every year since I can remember.
Since the cap started, we've only had 1 or 2 years I recall where there was a real issue, and the worst of that was after the championship seasons where we simply had just too much talent to keep it all, and had many premium players that we HAD to keep and pay accordingly. I doubt we ever get back to where we were then again.
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For the record I was 110% on board the free contract....still have mixed emotions if it is time to get rid of him.
and I am 110% against giving spencer a contract. no mixed emotions.
How unreasonable I am for championing fiscal responsibility!!!
Newsflash!!!!! Starting the off season 20 million over the cap and having to rely on restructures is an issue.
No, because this team isn't good at admitting mistakes and moving on.
Are you onboard with giving two mediocre players more guaranteed money?
It's not my money. If that's what we have to do that's what we have to do. I don't know what their contracts will look like anyhow.
I don't think the two guards were significantly worse at their position than say, Brandon Carr was at his. I'm willing to be patient there, particularly when you factor in all the injuries we had early, new blocking schemes, so many new pieces along the line, switching tackles, etc. Our oline was TERRIBLE but I think that had to be halfway expected with all that factored in, right?
I know everyone just wants to replace the entire interior (again) and that's gonna magically make us better but I don't think so. I think we need to be looking at most to replace one interior lineman and Doug Free. So I don't mind restructuring these two.
I don't think the two guards were significantly worse at their position than say, Brandon Carr was at his. I'm willing to be patient there, particularly when you factor in all the injuries we had early, new blocking schemes, so many new pieces along the line, switching tackles, etc. Our oline was TERRIBLE but I think that had to be halfway expected with all that factored in, right?
I know everyone just wants to replace the entire interior (again) and that's gonna magically make us better but I don't think so. I think we need to be looking at most to replace one interior lineman and Doug Free. So I don't mind restructuring these two.
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The "salary cap" might be fine, but it's the "salary crap" that concerns me.
There isn't enough cap to address the crap on the OL.
Jerry keeps on throwing spare parts (i.e., "salary crap") at the interior OL. And going cheap hasn't yielded much success.
There isn't enough cap to address the crap on the OL.
Jerry keeps on throwing spare parts (i.e., "salary crap") at the interior OL. And going cheap hasn't yielded much success.
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It's like an autograph signing here at the ranch .. Witten has restructured, now Livings and Bernandeu too
So glad we're giving Livings and Bernadeu more guaranteed money.
Good thing this isn't an issue.
They probably werent going to cut either this year, so the impact overall is probably nill.
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I dont know you can say he has been cheap with it. He paid Leonard Davis, Andre Gurode, Flozelle Adams, Colombo and Kosier quite well when they were here.
Also, Garrett says they intend to add competition to the OL positions, so until we see what that means its kinda premature to complain IMO.
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Do you know the details of these deals?
Yes. They took non-guaranteed money and made it guaranteed money.
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So no, you actually dont know shit about the specifics of what they did or how.
Duly noted.