08-28-2022, 03:14 PM
(08-28-2022, 12:58 PM)maclanta Wrote: The teams that are perceived to go “all in” are usually willing to trade high end talent for draft picks a year before a contract expires and similarly are willing to get rid of draft picks to take in players that might only have one year left in their contract to fill gaps in their roster. There is a price to pay for this, which is that you are constantly redlining your salary cap.
I think this front office has made huge steps in free agency over the last 3 years. But I don’t think that they are willing to treat draft picks/contracts in this manner… and I don’t think they are willing to continuously redline their salary cap.
They have seen some success being mostly conservative and picking moments to get aggressive. I suspect that will reinforce their current methods. I think that they can continue to have some success, but fans will be upset that they haven’t gone “all in” like other teams.
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This posts makes some good points.
I am not willing to trade away future high draft picks to go "all in".
But, on the other hand, we are in a very unique situation where we are set up with huge stars still on their rookie contracts. So I am 100% willing for us to spend all of our cap space in order to win this year. We need to add players to our O-line. I don't trust our starter at LG or our back ups at OT.
We still have a lot of cap space. We need to win now. No one wants to imagine the worst, but Joe Burrow could end up being another Greg Cook story. We don't know what the future holds so we need to win now.
