Late night bullshit: breaking down the tape on our defense.

[mcaj22]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I don't think anyone has illusions that we are spending money to be a super bowl contender right away. We spent money, but we are focused on building a good young foundation and we aren't cap strapping future contracts.

Many of those contracts are front loaded and given how many guys we cut, a good chunk of that money is dead money for piolis players. If it felt like we were blindly and desperately throwing money at players, I'd feel differently.

have you not been paying attention to how many contracts where restructured into bonus money and just paid in front as a lump sum?

Tyson Jackson, Flowers, Succup, then all the guys we cut that we still have to pay money, plus the current guys on the cap, plus all the other bonuses

probably close to 140-150 million in spending

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

have you not been paying attention to how many contracts where restructured into bonus money and just paid in front as a lump sum?

Tyson Jackson, Flowers, Succup, then all the guys we cut that we still have to pay money, plus the current guys on the cap, plus all the other bonuses

probably close to 140-150 million in spending

Branden Albert is on a cap heavy one year deal that drops either entirely in 2014 or gets signed into a far more reasonable cap figure. I think we'll over 11M is being paid out in dead money to the roster gutting, namely Winston, cassel, and breaston who alone account for 10m plus. Jackson took a pay cut and is still overpaid. His contract drops dramatically next year even if we keep him.

So I don't get what point you're trying to make. This team spent a shitload of money to gut the roster of dead weight. That means we pay a lot today to gie us long term roster flexibility and to cut out the crap. I don't know why doing that obligates us to win more games today. Our year 1 cap space means nothing and in no way obligates our team to be winning championships in year 1.