How does it happen?
1. Arrogance
2. Greed
3. Stupidity
4. Ignorance/Thinking they shouldn't be copying the Pats model.
I mean, I saw it coming for years.
Teams literally refuse to read Pats Management Secrets Vol 1 and 2, and refuse to employ people who understand BB's genius Cap Era artistry.
I literally ask "What would BB do here?"....Once I can kind of guess and maybe be right, I watch other teams run in the opposite direction with approach, and I just start laughing, knowing it won't work.
I mean, the very fact they won't build their teams like ours, is embarrassing and a complete failure.
I kept talking about how teams didn't quite grasp or want to grasp how the Rookie Cap of 2011, could actually set a GM up for cap health. BB knew it, traded away pricey vets, doubled down on draft picks, hit on most, and here we are.
I mean, BB had 6 picks in the top 100 of EACH draft from 2010-2012. That's why we see this potential new dynasty today.
Not one GM had a better yield from 2010-2014 (ballpark, generally speaking), in and out the Lockout than BB. So, when teams cut a quality vet at age 28 or so, he comes BB to pounce on a lower priced vet who wants to win (See Chris Long and numerous others). So, he just waits in the weeds, and then pounces on other teams' stupidity.
Once that Flacco deal hit, where arrogant Ozzie Newsome and Bisciotti, completely ignored re-upping their franchise QB for a proper deal, Flacco reeled off 12 TDs and 0 Ints in the 2012 postseason, and it gave him all the leverage in the world on Baltimore. Flacvo used it and destroyed their cap postion, slowly but surely. Throw in Ozzie being absolutely awful at drafting starting in 2010, with like 2 good picks in 2013 only, every guy he did pick right, that player left in FA to cap hell. So, he couldn't even keep a guy he hit on! lmao
It's how I knew Baltimore would fade. And once you get caught, you're caught.
80% of the league is either in a cap hell with a mediocre or bad team from this problem, or they have tons of cap space, think they can spend their way into a teambuild (Think the Jets), and they'll rinse and repeat, over and over, as a wild failure.
I could have walked into 80% of the league's front offices in some capacity, worked for free, and done a better job. But, these owners saw the dollar signs on the 2011 CBA, cashed in, and simply haven't cared. Greed. Arrogance. Second Generation Owner Ego.
And, Marshall isn't intelligent enough to talk about this anyway. He's Exhibit A of selfish primadonna, way overpriced, etc, where he CHOSE to go to certain teams in FA or via a trade he accepted, where those franchises did every single thing the complete opposite of what BB would have done. He has no business whining about it now.
The Pats have singlehandedly destroyed the cap era and it's' why Spygate and Deflategate exist.
As much money as the owners have made, they still are ticked off at Kraft's super duper success, his EXTRA money, and them knowing it's not going away.
It's why Goodell was hired, actually. Woody Johnson was "assigned" to hire Goodell.
PS Even BB's drafts in 2008 or 2009 that were seen as weak, they're really not. So, for about a decade now, BB's draft yields, now keeping costs down under a Rookie Cap since 2011, have given him all the leverage he needs to keep the train rolling.
