(02-01-2018, 11:27 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(02-01-2018, 11:23 PM)Eric1 Wrote: 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.

We have enough cap flexibility to sign Cousins and still sign Yannick, Ramsey, Jack etc etc down the road. The only loss might be someone like Fowler.

Still have ARob to worry about. His contract isn't going to be any less than what Davante Adams just got. That's going to be his floor.

Only loss might be someone like Fowler? We haven't had pass rushers in forever, but now we can afford to just dump em? Hopefully they can strike gold on another Ngakoue in the 3rd round then.

I have never said we couldn't afford Cousins right now. We absolutely could, but I'd prefer to try and keep up a long term success, rather than throwing all the eggs into the basket for 2 years.

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