(02-01-2018, 11:12 PM)Upper Wrote:

(02-01-2018, 11:04 PM)Eric1 Wrote: Giving Bortles 19m and Cousins 30m are two completely different things. You give $150m to a QB, that's giving up the farm bud. I know you hate Bortles so bad (just like you do Fowler, how's Beasley doing btw lollolol), you'll look past anything just to get rid of him.

When you even have to start the discussion of signing a player, and the first thing you have to do is list off half a dozen guys you'll have to cut because there isn't enough money to go around. That's giving up the farm and that's not good.

I just don't understand why math is so hard for you. There have been many people who have tried to explain this to you and others who think like you.

There is not half a dozen guys we are going to lose if we choose Cousins over Blake. Even if you are arguing it's Cousins vs a rookie QB that's still less than 25 mil difference. Still not even close to half a dozen players we'll have to cut because of Cousins.

You keep looking at it as if it's simply just one year. Yes, if it was simply one year, 10-12 million isn't a huge difference. 10-12m over 4-5 years really begins to add up and hurts you in every other area of the roster in the long run.

So now is where you'd come in and say that the salary cap keeps increasing so that wont matter. Yes the salary cap does keep increasing, as does the min salary paid to players each year. 1-2 years from now the salary cap will be higher, correct. But so will the cost of Ramsey and Ngakoue and every other player in the NFL.

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