03-09-2022, 01:45 PM
(03-09-2022, 01:34 PM)Au165 Wrote: What’s your point? Hendrickson accepted the same offer we tried to give him, Lawson accepted the same cap number with more guarantees. The context of all my comments have been that we aren’t limited by cap we are limited by our aversion to large guarantees. As a whole, we offer less guarantees across the board beyond year one than nearly any team in the league.
I’m literally not even arguing anything in regards to Lawson, it was just one example about how we are competitive in the top line cap hit number everyone references but fall short in guarantees. As we keep acting like we need to have cap to sign all the OL, they keep missing the real reason we will fall below what people are expecting.
This is very accurate.
That said the cap space is not endless and with some of our key targets headed towards bidding wars, having as much space as possible always helps.
But no doubt the guaranteed aspect kills way more deals for us than annual salary.
