Quote:1. Overpaying is what free agency is all about. For all the wild fantasies fans have about signing big names who'll come in for a sensible salary and perform amazingly, that's not the reality.2. They're really not taking a big risk. They have the cap space; they need to spend it. Putting some amount of it into reasonably high risk, high reward players isn't a bad idea at all. It only takes one of them to pay off and it's a big win. And if none of them do, so be it - the cap space was there to be used.

So, to follow your logic, if I come into a windfall of cash, and I decide to " invest " it at the horse track ( read: high risk ), and I lose it all, it's not a big deal because If none of my horses pay off, so be it, the money was there to be bet.

I can't follow that logic. The goal of everyone who manages their cap dollars is to get at least $1.00 worth of value for each $1.00 spent. In the NFL, if you're willing to waste cap dollars, you'll end up on the negative side of the win-loss stats. My point wasn't that the Jags were foolish to pay up for these guys....I realize "overpaying is what free agency is all about". My point was that this is a pivotal point in the careers of our current management.........If a majority of these FA's and draft picks fail to live up to expectations, their careers in Jax will be short-lived. The fans here have bought into the story that this is year 3 of the rebuilding process. If there is no sign of progress in 2015, I can't see how they would be permitted to say " o.k., that didn't work, so we're in year 1 of a new rebuilding process"

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