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It's even worse when you realize that they make nearly as much as either the entire offense or the entire defense, depending on which way you want to look at it, with 19 million being nearly a third of our entire salary cap. With even 10 million of that money available our team would look much, much differently this season. We would have been able to make some serious free agent moves instead of having to nickel-and-dime as best as we could. That, however, is why I'm not as down on the offseason as some folks are, I happen to think we really did make the best of a really bad situation where there weren't many options open to us.
That's also why there's reason for hope next year, because losing that 19 million now has netted us more than 7 million to use following the 2001 season. We won't be saying things like "oh my god we're 30 mil over" 8 months from now. ;)
Blame the NFLPA, yes, absolutely, but Carl Peterson, as well as Marty and Gunther to a lesser degree, are also to blame. We should never have been in this situation.
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