02-27-2016, 09:20 AM
(02-25-2016, 10:06 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: That can't be right, can it? I was told that the we were saving money for Andy and AJ. That was the money was carried over for. So now that we've signed both there shouldn't be any unspent.Mike Brown didn't fumble away the sure playoff win over the Steelers, one of his well paid players did.
Keep in mind, we started carrying over money in 2011. 2-0-1-1. Five freaking years ago. We carried over money from 2011 to 2012, then from 2012 to 2013, then from 2013 to 2014, then from 2014 to 2015. And now we're carrying over money from 2015 into 2016.
Let than sink in...
Money that is carried over is simply unspent money from the year prior. Unused cap space. Sure, every team at some point will most likely have a year where they don't spend to cap. For any number of reasons. Young roster in a rebuild, clearing of cap space, saving for a push the following year, cleaning house, etc.
But why would a team have unused money for FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS? Why? Again, we were told we were setting aside for Andy and AJ. For Geno. For Carlos. All of them are now signed. Does anyone honestly believe that we were saving money in 2011 for a Geoge Iloka contract in 2016? He wasn't even drafted until 2012. Marvin Jones, Sanu, were they budgeted in for while they were still in college?
Every year we rollover more money from the last, which only means we continue to have unspent money from the previous year. Every year we're near the top in space. Every single year. We cry about expiring deals, and injury pools, and rookie deals. Yet it never gets spent. Never.
Tens of millions of dollars that goes directly it the pockets of the Brown family. Tens of millions of dollars that other teams have and will try to use to better their respective teams. And here we stand, with the longest playoff win drought in professional football. With 5 straight one and dones. No closer to a Superbowl now than were in 2011, or 2009, or 2005.
It's the same story, we watch this some movie every single damn year. If you're cool with doing less, and investing less resources into our product than others then that's fine. But please, save all the bologna that we're only saving for future deals, or that we're simply being conservative.
We don't spend what we can. Our peers invest more. Period. Pretending that this witholding of future cap space is part of some master plan is an insult to everyone's intelligence.
Rant over...
