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01-03-2018, 02:35 PM #37
Re: Another great cap article from Brian
"Cause if you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that just means you’re okay with being mediocre, and ain’t no man in here okay with just basic.”
- Ray Lewis
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01-03-2018, 02:40 PM #38
Re: Another great cap article from Brian
I said it in another thread where someone suggested some more restructures to create some more cap room in 2018. We need to stop doing it because it hinders our future flexibility to move on from certain players like Jefferson or B. Williams. They are guys I think we're going to have to move on from before the end of their deals. If we restructure the likes of them (again) then we're stuck with a huge cap figure, unable to cut them because of high dead money, and we surrender leverage to the player by being in a situation where our only way to relieve cap is to extend them and spread out the owed guaranteed money.
I swear our front office operates like a teenager with a credit card. Make the minimum payment in the short term and if you need more money then just open another line of credit. We're approaching the point where the bill is coming due, the credit rating is shit, and we have no more options for more lines of credit.Last edited by DeltaRaven; 01-03-2018 at 02:46 PM.
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01-03-2018, 03:09 PM #40
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01-03-2018, 03:11 PM #41Veteran Poster
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Re: Another great cap article from Brian
I love Ozzie but he has made the mistake of trying to compete year in and year out for too many consecutive years. It started with the kicking of the can down the road on the original Flacco contract. It continued when he gave him an extension when the cap number became too big. All of those cap savings on the Flacco contract were to sign high priced under performing defensive players.
Ozzie needs to bite the bullet and trade his boy CJ moseley and get back 9m of cap space to use on offense now. You paid a fortune for safeties and a NT. Sorry but we can't afford a 9m dollar MLB who cant cover Jesse James. We should also seriously consider trading Suggs this off season as well. He has 1 year left on a reasonable number. He played at a high level. A team competing right now may give you something decent in return. Maybe it is time to take 1 step back to take two steps forward.
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01-03-2018, 11:51 PM #43
Re: Another great cap article from Brian
From what I’ve read ...no. Teams can’t trade cap room. Mike Florio actually has an article back in 2013 on Bleacher Report about that very idea. If allowed to do that it would basically make the cap null and void. There would always be teams that were way under and way over. Big market teams would just buy more space from the lower market teams. Then you’d have Baseball.
Great idea though.
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01-04-2018, 12:07 AM #44
Re: Another great cap article from Brian
So I guess we should play moneyball like the Browns? Shed all the big contracts and sign all the cheap FA's?
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01-04-2018, 07:13 AM #45
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01-04-2018, 07:18 AM #46
Re: Another great cap article from Brian
No. We need to just take our lumps with existing contracts and stop restructuring them. Once we're out of the weeds we can start structuring new FA contracts properly instead of continuing the current vicious cycle, which is a result of wanting to "be competitive year in and year out" that has only led to mediocrity.
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01-04-2018, 07:37 AM #47Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Another great cap article from Brian
Every year McFarland predicts how horrible we are with the cap and every year Ozzie and company prove it's a non-issue and make it work.
So, I don't believe the cap situation is as bad as some are proclaiming. Definitely don't think it's going to handicap us from making the moves that need to be made. I'm predicting trades on the offensive side of the ball which will help in that regard some.
Trade Joe post june 1. Get a few draft picks. Save $12 mil against the cap this year and $8 mill next year. Draft a rookie QB and use the money saved to get a proven WR. Tell me that wouldn't be the better investment.
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Re: Another great cap article from Brian
I'd rather play moneyball light the Saints. They got rid of a bunch of older players and replaced them with an amazing rookie class and cheap vets. The Steelers have been using that model for years. Timmons was a great Steeler but at 30 they got rid of him. Mike Wallace wanted crazy money....see ya', we'll find a replacement in the draft and pay cheap guys like DHB to take up the slack. That's the way to handle a tight cap
The Browns were sitting on about $50 million in cap space. They go into next year with $109 million in cap space according to Over the Cap! Moneyball for them was about using analytics to make decisions. It's wasn't about being forced to save money like the Oakland A's. They've never been close to the cap like us or the Saints or the Steelers. Don't confuse their version of moneyball with anything remotely resembling what any real NFL organization would do.
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