08-29-2021, 03:25 PM
(08-29-2021, 03:19 PM)mikey6866 Wrote: I'm not saying they are necessarily cheap. There is a definite perception of them being cheap mainly based on guaranteed money in contracts and cap mgmt around the league is all I was saying. I think they are a little too conservative and could start offering more guaranteed and work the cap more agressively but they haven't been complete cheapskates or anything like that recently.
We have signed guys to pretty big deals which are also considered more team friendly because they don't have alot of guaranteed money. We also have traditionally had top 10 in available cap money year after year. We are not a team that is in contstant restructure mode to manipulate cap. Some view this as cheap but I think it's just being conservative and not necessarily cheap as you really don't want to be in a position where you are robbing peter to pay paul every year.
Again, they are top 10 in ACTUAL dollars leaving their pockets no matter how the contract is structured. My whole point is you can criticize a lot about how they run the team or structure contracts, you can even say they spend their money idiotically at times, but they aren’t cheap and that’s my whole point here for a small market team who makes less than a lot of teams they spend more than most.
Heck, maybe if they spent less on players they’d paid for all those things Wes was complaining they didn’t have.
