Hoofbite;4608763 said:
What the team pays their staff is irrelevant.
Doesn't influence the cap at all. Jerry can spend until his hearts content in that area and nobody should have any problem with it.
They could have worked his contract in with little problem.
We just watched them do the same for all the players they signed this year.
As far as the team liking them, that's different from how they felt about the OL last year in what way?
If they work out, great. I hope they do but their process of taking a bunch of flyers either through the draft or FA isn't much different now than it was when they were failing to find adequate OL talent to develop a short while back.
By OC, I meant Center, not Offensive Coordinator. My bad.
This offseason's signings were very different from last offseason's. And I think--other than the Waters whiff- they made the right calls last year, too. Personnel-wise, 2011 was pretty much a lay-up season while the team positioned itself for this offseason. However you care to look at it, we've revamped our entire OL in very short order here, devoting resources to it in both FA and the draft. Just because we're finding players at value prices, it doesn't mean they're taking flyers, either. It's the right way to fill out your OL, you just have to do a better job selecting and developing the talent at those value positions than we've done recently.