Ahhh...How delightful to read a well-considered, thoughtful argument, quite in contrast with the raw sewage that certain posters routinely spew!!
If you don't mind, I'll carve out this one part of your response, as it's of particular interest to me, and circle back to other ones, afterwards ~ possibly tomorrow, as I'm planning on turning in early this morning, after a long night of bloodsucking!!
Let me give
@manxman2601 a shout out, as well, as he may be interested in chipping in a comment or two...and perhaps others will add their perspectives?
Let me bring your quote back down here:
You make multiple strong points, here.
It looks like you misunderstood me on #12, the part you quoted, though, because you imply that I'm "worried" about Cap Space, when I was only clearing it out to
spend it.
And I take a back seat to no man in my faith and trust in Mad Bill, even though I've emphatically disagreed with many of his moves, over the years.
Maybe we
should be worried about it in a year, though, as I alluded to in part #1, up there...
Here's what elicited my concerns, about which I'd certainly like to hear your perspective: One year, hence, I foresee no less than 6 enormous raises coming due:
FB Brandin Cooks
SE Christopher Hogan
OG Shaq Mason
BT Malcom Brown
BT Danny Shelton
DE Trey Flowers
Flanker Back, Split End, Offensive Guard, Bear Tackle, Bear Tackle, Dragon End.
You can see where I'm going with this.
Between the six of'm, they count a pinch above $20,000,000 on our Cap, right now.
Next year, if we keep all 6? With Brown and Shelton looking at Year 5 Club Options, and the rest'f'm free to roam Free Agency, and with all 6 likely to be even better, this year, especially Hogan, we could easily be looking at $50,000,000 or $60,000,000.
And I agree with you: Mad Bill is amazing with the Cap, one result of which is that we're not looking at much at all in the way of Expiring Dead Money or Expirations of the Bloated Salaries of OverPaid Veterans to defray those upcoming costs with.
So that's my concern, you see.
Those Salaries are one year away from hitting us like a Pig In A Python.
That's chow!! That's chow!! That's chow de
DOW!!