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So, the needed $5M cap money is there ($7M if Peppers is the choice).
I say extend Wilfork. But cant the Pats restucture others and still save money that way too. Seymour has a huge cap hit for 2009, if they extend him cant they get his cap number down? And is it possible to resign Wilfork and still have his 2009 cap hit around the same as it is now. Give him more of a signing bonus or something.
While extending Seymour might be done with the same cap, he has shown less than no interest in extending.
If there is no new CBA next season then I probably would be all for getting Peppers now and worrying about Wilfork and Seymour later.
As one of the deeper pocketed teams, not only would the Pats have an owner willing and able to spend $ but, without a new CBA, two new features present themselves that might make it wiser to go get a player, in order to have him on your team prior to the CBA expiring, rather than worrying about extending current players who are slated to become free agents.
If I recall correctly, under no CBA agreement in place, all playoff teams are restricted to only signing a FA at the rate that they lose one. Further, each team would be allowed to restrict two eligible free agents with franchise and transition tags, rather than one.
Under such rules, and with a willing owner, it would be quite feasible to keep both Wilfork and Seymour next year while adding Peppers this year.
My point is Kraft, like Jerry Jones, might be expecting an uncapped year in which case he could afford to add Peppers and keep both Wilfork and Seymour and still make boatloads of money!If Kraft had no interest in making money, he could indeed afford Seymour, Wilfork and Peppers at $10M each per year, with a large amount of the cash paid next year in an uncapped year.
There is no guarantee of an uncapped year.
In any case, we can do ONE of the three this year.
My point is Kraft, like Jerry Jones, might be expecting an uncapped year in which case he could afford to add Peppers and keep both Wilfork and Seymour and still make boatloads of money!
How do you think that an uncapped year will bring more money into Kraft's hands? Or is that that you just think that he makes so much money that $20M or $30M doesn't matter to hiM?
We don't have to have $16 million to get Peppers, only the Panthers need to have that to sign him to a franchise tender. He is not coming here to be a DE, he is coming as an OLB (which is a significantly lower cap number). He is, I am assuming, aware that he has more money than he'll ever know what to do with but does not have a great shot at a ring with the Panthers.
I highly doubt Kraft would have any problems shelling out $30M if he felt doing so would best position his team to win another super bowl or two over the next couple of seasons. I also don't believe he would need additional capitalization in order to operate as so in an uncapped NFL environment.
Do you feel otherwise?
We don't have to have $16 million to get Peppers, only the Panthers need to have that to sign him to a franchise tender.
I do not believe that Kraft would need more capitalization. I do not believe that he would hand out $30M more than his norm in order to increase the likelihood of winning a Super Bowl or two. He has a business model and a football business model. They work. This team does not resemble the Redskins and it shouldn't.