Even Adalius took less. Unfortunately, that still resulted in an overpay. That will happen inadvertently every once in a while. Should never happen intentionally. There will be a cap again, bank on it.
Precisely my point. Good personnel management looks ahead at needs and doesn't let the team be held hostage by one player. You need to secure a good quarterback, but otherwise if you plan well, you can let a player go to some other team that overpays (makes a mistake).
It's amazing how often "overpayment" follows a lack of due diligence in ensuring one can survive until the high dollar player is replaced. Asante wanted too much and had we hit better with free agents or drafted more, we would have turned over that position sooner. I'm fine with our current secondary and think it will be better than our past.
We paid a healthy contract for Seymour in his prime and it was a good decision. Injuries happen and don't turn a good decision into a bad one. Was he worth another long term contract when we could lose a year of him and get a #1 from a horrible team? We'll see. His loss didn't sink that team. I loved the guys performance, but he wasn't exactly a company man and who knows if he would have helped or hurt in the Adalius situation.
sometimes you need that one player or want a guy bad so you go get him. People think we overpayed for Welker, for instance. People just have to get this word overpay out of their vocabulary as anything that could ever be positive.
Overpay means you made a mistake. No, we should never overpay. If you study and determine a player is really going to fit your team and some website or poster says you overpaid, you didn't if you got what you wanted and paid what you needed to at the time. Tiny gradations of salary or draft position simply melt away if you get the guy that makes your Offense or defense click.
More devastating are the tons of great value drafts and acquisitions that lay eggs, that you waste time and money on. The same pundits will tell you the waste of space was a great value and that's just so much horse manure.