(03-16-2022, 09:59 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(03-16-2022, 08:50 AM)Mikey Wrote: Good gravy the way some of y'all are carrying on you'd think the team was siphoning money from your kids' college funds to pay these deals.

If it makes the team better, so flippin what if we were generous to sign the guys that got the ball rolling. So long as we aren't cutting guys like TLaw to keep guys like Taven Bryan or J. Taylor, what does it harm you, at the end of the day? Did I miss where the board is going to award a trophy to the most miserable poster?

If there was no salary cap, I would agree with you.  However, there is a salary cap.  It means each team has a limited amount of dollars to spend on players.  The goal is to maximize the benefit of those dollars.  It's an opportunity cost.  If you waste money by over-paying a player, that is money that you can't spend on a better player or a combination of players that might help you win more games.  Down the road, you may be unable to retain a player that you want to retain.  You may have to cut a player that you don't want to cut.  Maximizing those dollars means maximizing your chances of winning.  If you are a fan of the team, you should care deeply whether the team is spending its money wisely or foolishly.

I am fine with the Christian Kirk contract.  In a vacuum, yes, maybe we overpaid, and maybe we shouldn't do that.  But in the current circumstances, it was a good move.  When you have a young potential franchise QB, you absolutely must put a team around him or else you will stunt his development, perhaps permanently.  We don't have the time to draft and develop WRs.    

Sure, we might need that money down the road, but we probably won't have another shot at a player like Trevor, so it is very urgent that we build this team now.

And I'd also make this point: Today's "record size" deal is tomorrow's average deal.  Guys get signed for huge amounts of money every year, and within a few years, they're no longer the highest paid; they become the 5th highest, and then the 10th highest, and so on.

I'm normally a save-save-save kind of person in my personal life, but I look around me at people I know, who spend money like drunken sailors, and they look like they're having a really great time.  Don't be the richest man in the cemetery!  We can go year after year building our cap space, but the objective isn't to build cap space, it's to build a team!  Let's get this team going!  And if we have to blow a bunch of cap space to get this thing jump-started, I'm all in.

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