Quote:I am sorry, but no thanks to Suh. Or Cobb for that matter. Do people really want to go back to the good ole days of cap hell? Because to sign a big free agent we'd be mortgaging the future for the present, and frankly this team isn't one player away.

But this is a pretty generous logical leap you are taking.

 

You are making the assumption that signing a big name free agent or two would put this team in cap hell.

 

It won't.

 

First off, the team is/will be mandated to spend up to 89% of the salary cap at least by next year.  Eventually the team will HAVE to spend cap money, whether you want to or not.

 

Secondly, the team is some SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS ($60,000,000) under the cap.  There is no way signing both Suh and Cobb (assuming a worst case scenario in your eyes) would eat up all of that cap space.

 

Furthermore, it's not as if this team has players currently on the roster that the team desperately needs to re-sign.  The current collective bargaining agreement precludes teams from re-signing players until they are in their fourth year.  Assuming we have hit on Joeckel, Cyprien, Gratz, Bortles, Robinson, Hurns, lee, et al, we won't need to re-sign the 2013 draft picks until next year at the earliest.  Prior to 2013, we have missed on so many draft choices, we have nobody we are really pressed to re-sign this year, anyway.

 

Finally, one of the reasons this team's golden age was under Coughlin is because this team spent liberally and often wisely in free agency.  It is safe to assume that without Leon Searcy, Jeff Lageman, Joel Smeenge, Keenan McCardell, etc., this team would not have reached two AFC Championship games.  The biggest danger to any team isn't necessarily reckless free agency spending.   It's the draft day failures that make the free agency spending necessary in the first place.

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