gimmesix
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If the cap goes down it’s going to affect us signing top-tier free agents who can make an impact. Top-tier free agents are grossly over paid and we aren’t likely to have the cap space. We usually don’t go after top-tier free agents anyway. We look for cheap low to mid tier free agents like Poe and Ha Ha Clinton Dix. We’re hoping we can get something out of them like we did with Robert Quinn in 2019. It seems like every player who’s on the decline looking for a one year prove it deal is on our wish list.
If the cap goes down, contracts will be structured accordingly. You can pay players a lot of money without paying them a large portion of it their first year. Dallas will be able to do what it wants to do, but as you said, the Joneses don't go after top-tier free agents anyway. They go after cheap ones, which is why we end up with players like Poe and Dix.
Quinn wasn't a free agent and he wasn't really cheap. We traded a sixth-round pick for him and paid him $9.2 million. Our free agency system sucks and we need to change strategies. We might hit on a "bargain" signing like we did with Randall Cobb, but most of them turn out to have minimal to no real impact, like Poe, Dix, McCoy or George Iloka, Kerry Hyder and Christian Covington in 2019.