Quote:That would be wasting money. We already have those players under contract....let's give them a bonus instead of trying to bring in more talent? Even if only a couple of the FA's pan out, consider it a success. We are at a point where we have to spend money on our roster. What's the downside to free agency at that point? If any of them pan out, we have more talent than the abysmal roster we've had the last few years.

" wasted " is a relative term. If we signed a FA and gave him guaranteed money of $5 million and he bombed in year one, I would call that wasted money. It might also reduce the level of future cap space, depending on how the deal was structured. We all have lived through previous mismanagement of the salary cap, with huge amounts of dead money on the books.......money which could have been spent on acquiring talent could have resulted in fielding a more competitive team. Currently, I believe the Jags have the seventh lowest amount of dead money on the books. That's good.

Distributing unspent money to existing players will not happen. That provision became part of the collective bargaining arrangement as an additional incentive for team management to compete for, and therefore increase the demand and price tag of, players in free agency. As you can see by the huge contracts being signed in free agency, it's working.

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