Originally Posted by Derinyar
The Commanders are the undisputed kings of March. They have been continually doing the same things, the only thing that has saved them is the rate at which the cap has been expanding. The Cap has been expanding faster than figured on for a whie, especially this year. That has allowed the Skins to no wind up in a huge bind, that and the fact that your core players are still willing to restructre each year. The skins are literally one career ending injury away from a hell of a lot of trouble.
Frankly, I think the Skins "success" in March has hurt them more than its helped them. It makes their Front Office undervalue the draft and drafted players. It means they have to be the Kings of March every year to have any chance at a decent team.
I don't think they are cheating either. Derinyar is most accurate in his statement.
They choose not to keep Champ, Smoot, Lavar, Steven Davis, Pierce...Probably others too. Good players I'm sure they would like to have on their team now. But they are not due to the way Snyder plays. His team his choice. Different coach's over the years have had different styles and want certain players that fit their style, creates a lot of turnover.
Look, we and a few other teams were burned by the cap in earlier years when it was not expanding as fast. It's that simple...
We could do it too, I think JJ just has a little of the burnt stove syndrum. So he doesn't want to go back there.
The Skins could actually be a real force in the NFL if they keep up this strategy. There biggest problem to date is really that they trade too many draft picks and are not that great with the ones they have, especially in the later rounds.
If they continued with their top of the line...Yes I said top of the line cap management...and stopped trading draft picks, got smarter and some late round picks, they could build an outstanding team.
So I see their only real flaws is not in signing the FA's, there fine there as long as the cap keeps expanding (I'm not sure how that works tho?lol.)...but thier problem is trading a lot of picks and then not hitting on many their late round choices.
But all is not lost Dallas fans. The last couple of years OUR drafting has improved considerabliy (is that even a word?).
We could and should be more agressive in Free agency and cap management.
We are running the Eagles cap management mode, which is too try to save money for an emergency and convert extra cash into LTBE incentives to add to our dollars the next year.
Its up to JJ on which mode we want to use.
If JJ was more aggressive and we rolled more with the expanding cap, we would have the advantage because we are better at drafting (part of that is KEEPING your draft picks) and we just have more on hand now.
I didn't think this was a great FA season anyhow, the caps going up another..5-6 million next year so who knows about next year either ?
We just happen to need help at reciever this year and the best one is a dufus were not sure we want to take a chance on (and the draft isn't that great at reciever this year either). We could have been more agressive on 1 of the 2 olinemen (Bently and Hutch) and still would have been fine...But we didn't. Yell at Jerry if your pissed.
Demps, Chavous at FS I would gone hard for too. We have plenty of room left.
Its more of us not being aggressive enough than any cheating by the Skins.
Now 1 more thing. Since they restructured many contracts and spread out the bonus's on several players, they must keep those same players next year. That is where you get screwed. We don't have (or I don't) have the details on this but I think if Brunell or Samuels (and whoever else) were to retire or have a career threatning injury. They would be in trouble.
Their salary grows as the cap grows. In the late 90's our salaries grew faster than the cap...Bottom line.
