03-16-2021, 11:36 AM
(03-16-2021, 11:28 AM)SErebel11 Wrote: If this is true, then the way they handled this whole free agency period is terrible.
1. They should have just franchised Lawson. Sure they saved 3.5M against the cap but they could have used what liquidity they have in pursuit of another player like Zeitler. It appears that they gave Hendrickson a 10M signing bonus. Baltimore structured Zeitler's contract the way we talked about on the other thread. 1M base 9M signing with a lot of guaranteed money. I had him at 3/21. They would have saved nearly the 3.5M cap back on Zeitler.
2. They should have been attacking other players in the 5-8 M range with higher guaranteed money in later seasons instead of paying big signing bonuses. I frankly do not understand why they are so hardcore with that since they seem to let everyone play out their contract anyway. KirkPatrick being an exception to the rule.
3. If they don't have the liquidity to stretch the cap for this season, there is no reason why they should not have cut Bernard, Uzomah, Atkins, and Hart saving them 25M toward the cap and found roster upgrades elsewhere.
4. They should not have come out with all this talk that they were going to make huge improvements to the roster in free agency.
5. They should have restructured Boyd in a deal where they are paying his bonus during the season since they have him under contract anyway which would have saved another 5M towards the cap.
I believe it is probably what we talked about in another thread. I think they overestimated their cap against that of the rest of the league and when it became clear they were not in the financially dominant position they thought they were they got caught in no man's land.
