The point that seems to be flying over everyone's head is, you never ever say "who gives a shit about the $, pay the guy". Which was a very popular sentiment here not long ago.

It matters, even if at that time you are $30MM under the cap. Now look at the crossroads we are at.

As I stated I was never part of the just pay the man crowd and I am not part of it now. The contract needs to be very reasonable.

If we do he better play like a Franchise QB who can carry this team, because "good enough" will **** his shit up.

I agree with your overall point, however I don't think any of the contracts Pioli handed out have hurt us.

What's hurting us, IMO is that we haven't drafted worth a shit, so we don't have a lot of players that contribute that are still on their first (and inexpensive) contract.

If we don't start drafting better, this is likely going to be a problem for a while - or, we're going to have to start letting some good players go.

Stadium upgrade costs self-reimbursement I think.

I think were a little too worried about the cap right now. Someone made a good acknowledgement that we are close to the cap top, but pretty far below the cash cap.

I'd imagine we restructure some thing moving cap to cash to open some stuff up.

Agree. While there are some good players under contract 1, we didn't seem to trust/play many of them this year early. I think that's a big reason our d ran out of gas.

Well that and Kendrick Lewis.

It's great to have a loaded draft class perform, but it kinda sucks down the road when the bill comes due. I'm anxious too see what the Seahawks and 9era do with all that young talent.

Like Hamas said though, it just like baseball, you win with young cost controlled talent