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Originally Posted by rypper11
The only thing the front office has done well in the past 10years is spend outrageous amounts of money and get under the cap. I have no doubt that this will be the case in 08 and beyond. I'm more concerned about who is going to get a windfall of cash next year and not live up to the money or the hype (see lloyd, trotter, sanders, george, etc etc...). If we could figure out a way to get the same results out of the player development and personnel evaluation departments as accounting and we wouldn't just win the Super Bowl in March.
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My inital post tries to show how this isn't possible. Sure some may want to do that, but it can't be done. It's because of the way the cap was structured before that we are in this mess. Our cap guys aren't any smarter than other cap guys, they are just willing to take measures that sacrifice the future to bail out of immediate cap trouble.
Here's the predicament we are in: we are still capable of further sacrificing the future, but we are NOT capable of avoiding all effects of our past actions any longer. Starting in 2008, we will not have money to sign a starting caliber FA. If we continue to restructure all veteran, 2009 will be a year where we can't sign any free agents nor will be able to resign our own players. By 2010 if we continue the restructuring everyone road, we won't have any veteran talent left. It's not going to get to that point though. We are going to either cut bait after this season (Which means all the vets I outlined in my first post go, minimal restructuring), or choose a more gradual, but longer, rebuilding process (we cut select vets, keep others, and have additional restructuring).
Either way, we already know that the 2008 shopping spree happened a year ago. Don't expect us to add any starting caliber players next year.