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$14,619,191 in cap space. Who would you have added in free agency?!

I believe that the FO should step out of the traditional approach and seek to better the team in a more robust manner. As such, the primary action, and most important, would be to investigate whom Coach deems most worthy of cap space.

then strike that ************ off the FA list and go from there.
 
ark steel said:
Not at all. The "five wide *******" schtick is old and abused.

I'm advocating that you spend reasonably to get reasonable results. If you can get a guy for $5m that is just about as good as the guy for $10m+, why would you spend the $10m guy? How much better is that $10m, really? Are you getting Revis in his prime or are you getting a guy who had one good year after 4 in the league? Is that extra $5m worth losing someone you already have?

Everyone is butt hurt because we lost to the *'s. Nothing about how well the team did with rookies in the defensive backfield, "OMG WE CAN'T BEAT THE CHEATING *'S!!" All of the other teams are trying the things that are advocated in this thread, with the same results as we had, except they didn't even get to the AFCCG doing it. Why would us doing the same thing as the other teams have different results?

That doesn't mean "don't try anything", it just means, don't have kneejerk reactions and make reasonable decisions.
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You can not get a $10 mill a year guy for $5 mill. Again every year the price increases because the salary cap increases also. It is like you think we are dealing with the salary cap of 5 years ago. The salary cap is exploding. Hell look at what AB is making. Crazy money. You have teams $50 mill plus under the cap. If the link Coached shared is correct in 2019 we will be looking at us being $90 mill plus under the cap. As far as butt hurt over the Pats beating us.... me?....nope. not anymore. Cheating or not I give them props. I no longer care if they cheat/cheating. The Rooney's don't /didn't care I as sure as hell will not care. In all honesty what I am butt hurt about is sending out the exact same defense scheme over the last two or three handful of seasons and expect different results. Again....bad QB's have career games against is...why? Because of the way we play defensive. They changed the game when Goodell took over. It hurt the way we play defensively. ...but we didn't change anything. Six or seven years ago was the time to start changing. Now we are in a win now mode with our franchise QB going on a year to year basis and our defense is still evolving with our younger guys.
In the past when Cowher was here we made splash signings in FA. So we have done it in the past. It is there to improve your team in an area of need. We could have use it at the CB area for almost a decade now. Think about that.
 
They have 10 CB's on the roster. Seems like a highly competitive group. I believe we will find by the end of 2017 that we have solved our CB problem
and didn't waste big bucks in free agency.
 
stillwright said:
You can not get a $10 mill a year guy for $5 mill. Again every year the price increases because the salary cap increases also. It is like you think we are dealing with the salary cap of 5 years ago. The salary cap is exploding. Hell look at what AB is making. Crazy money. You have teams $50 mill plus under the cap. If the link Coached shared is correct in 2019 we will be looking at us being $90 mill plus under the cap. As far as butt hurt over the Pats beating us.... me?....nope. not anymore. Cheating or not I give them props. I no longer care if they cheat/cheating. The Rooney's don't /didn't care I as sure as hell will not care. In all honesty what I am butt hurt about is sending out the exact same defense scheme over the last two or three handful of seasons and expect different results. Again....bad QB's have career games against is...why? Because of the way we play defensive. They changed the game when Goodell took over. It hurt the way we play defensively. ...but we didn't change anything. Six or seven years ago was the time to start changing. Now we are in a win now mode with our franchise QB going on a year to year basis and our defense is still evolving with our younger guys.
In the past when Cowher was here we made splash signings in FA. So we have done it in the past. It is there to improve your team in an area of need. We could have use it at the CB area for almost a decade now. Think about that.
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You know those are just example numbers, right? Does it help your comprehension if I say "why would you pay $15m for one guy when there is a guy you can sign for $10m that is just as, or almost as, good?"

I don't know if you are purposely missing the point, or not. Is the guy you are paying REALLY $5m better than the next guy. It doesn't matter if the $ are $5m, $10m or $100m.

My contention, backed up by the facts of other teams doing that very thing are not getting the results you seem to think are automatic. It is very, very clear.
 
ark steel said:
You know those are just example numbers, right? Does it help your comprehension if I say "why would you pay $15m for one guy when there is a guy you can sign for $10m that is just as, or almost as, good?"

I don't know if you are purposely missing the point, or not. Is the guy you are paying REALLY $5m better than the next guy. It doesn't matter if the $ are $5m, $10m or $100m.

My contention, backed up by the facts of other teams doing that very thing are not getting the results you seem to think are automatic. It is very, very clear.
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Some teams sign FA and still do well. It is when you try to build a team through FA that you fail as a whole. We have a solid cire of players and adding a FA every now and then wouldn't hurt(1st tier or 2nd tier)...why can we add bottom feeders at the CB position and still pan out with where all your "facts" fall? Cockrell is nothing special. Blake nothing special. Yet we did add them. They started for us....how come we didn't fail like the rest you speak of that bring in FA? So this point alone disproves that just because you bring in FA doesn't mean you will fail. If we toe the line right now with the rest you speak of in points per game (and you are happy with that)...how about we bring in some better talent at the CB position. Hell we just might do better. Imagine that. Any ways I understand you don't want to pay the salaries that the position us commanding at the moment. I get that. My point is we have had a glaring need at the position for a long long time and we could have improved ot via FA. FA isn't aways a bad thing. We have used it in the past with good results.
 
If we used our cap space to bring in a shutdown corner (if one was available) which NE wideout would you have put him on that would have changed the results of last years game?
 
obxsteeler said:
If we used our cap space to bring in a shutdown corner (if one was available) which NE wideout would you have put him on that would have changed the results of last years game?
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All of them.
 
obxsteeler said:
If we used our cap space to bring in a shutdown corner (if one was available) which NE wideout would you have put him on that would have changed the results of last years game?
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We passed, he went to another team.
 
ark steel said:
Sure. What did he do for the other team? How did they do for the season?
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What a single player does for one team will NEVER dictate what they could/would do for another....but go and keep throwing out your points per game and all. SMH
Also you keep saying why sign player A for $10 mill when you can get player B for $5 mill...well in case you didn't notice. Not only do we not sign player A for $10 mill...we don't sign player B for the $5 mill. Hell. We jump to player M, N or O for league minimum. ...but don't forget....you stated teams that sign FA's don't do well but then go on to say we do as well as the teams that sign FA's. What you are forgetting is that we do sign bottom tier FA's and they have started for us. And we have done just as well as the teams that signed the high priced FA's. So what I wonder is would we do better than what we have done IF we would have signed player that can play PRESS COVERAGE.....regardless of the price.....whether it was $5 mill. $10 mill. You know. A player that improves our team in an area of weakness. A concept we have used in the past that has HELPED us.
 
When have I ever said signing FA'S doesn't help?

I hate it when a teams success is based on something like ppg or wins. What a ridiculous idea!

It ain't what that one player does, genius, it is how signing that player for $5m more than their play suggests that keeps you from signing someone else....

Hate to break it to you, but results matter. Texas spent way more on their secondary last year than we did. Played the *''s twice. Allowed 27 poinys to them with Brisset (3rd string qb) and 34 in the playoffs. I mean, I know points don't matter, and all, but it ought to weigh in somewhere considering that is the team everyone is all but hurt about losing to.
 
ark steel said:
When have I ever said signing FA'S doesn't help?

I hate it when a teams success is based on something like ppg or wins. What a ridiculous idea!

It ain't what that one player does, genius, it is how signing that player for $5m more than their play suggests that keeps you from signing someone else....

Hate to break it to you, but results matter. Texas spent way more on their secondary last year than we did. Played the *''s twice. Allowed 27 poinys to them with Brisset (3rd string qb) and 34 in the playoffs. I mean, I know points don't matter, and all, but it ought to weigh in somewhere considering that is the team everyone is all but hurt about losing to.
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You need to reread your own post GENIUS. From the beginning. A bunch of double talk you have been doing. UnFucking believable. .....
 
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Sorry can't comprehend basic logic.
 
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