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Originally Posted by BossChief
Here's the thing that REALLY bothers me about this offseason...in 2-3 years, the cap will be well above 150 million and by that time we will be past the usefulness of some of our key players that have showed loyalty to this organization.
Flowers
Charles
Hali
Bowe
This offseason was a HUGE missed opportunity for the organization to move forward and bolster the current roster to make a legit run at a title.
I don't want to hear a peep about how moves now (restructures, signings, etc) would hurt us in 2-3 years because its simply not true. Just those 4 are almost 40 million worth of cap space that will fall off during the same timeframe that the cap increases another 25 million.
IMO we should have converted Bowe, Berry and Hali's base salaries to signing bonuses to clear enough space to sign
Evan Deitrich Smith
Jarius Byrd (or TJ Ward)
Desean Jackson
That's not even 20 million worth of cap space needed to take on all 3 of those deals and with those 3, we could probably compete with almost any team in the NFL.
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The current roster isn't nearly as good as you are making them out to be. If we're serious about a Super Bowl run, then we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking 2 or 3 guys suddenly puts us in the same conversation as a seriously re-stacked Denver and New England team, let alone Seattle and San Fran. So to me, for as much as people talk about empty wins, if we spent on those 3 guys and we still aren't Super Bowl winners, then those were empty wins where we incurred a lot of back-end debt to subsidize it.
Our best chance at a run is 2015. And we can actually be on the same playing field as Denver or New England with two excellent drafts, by extending Houston, Berry, and Smith. So if our best shot at a run in 2015, then I'd rather spend the big free agent dollars when the money is actually available versus doing a bunch of gymnastics in 2014 mostly to free up money for a year 1 run where we are still big long shots to win it all.