[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

They were not creating a competitive advantage anyway. They were fixing previous mistakes. To create a competitive advantage they would have to gain more cap space room than the rest of the teams in the league.

The way things were at the start of free agency:

Jacksonville Jaguars $45 million
Kansas City Chiefs $62.995 million
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, $60.496 million.
Cincinnati Bengals $60 million
Denver Broncos $50.735 million
San Francisco 49ers $39.33 million
Atlanta Falcons $30.6 million
New England Patriots $20 million

So, the Redskins had ~$36million in cap room and a history of using all their cap space without producing playoff teams. Seems to me that the league would need to show a definitive statistical link between spending and playoff wins to even begin to make the competitive advantage argument. Then, they are still be left with the fact that the moves the skins and cowboys made didn't put them ahead of the other teams in the league with regards to cap space anyway.

EXACTLY!!!! Great post! How can the league say the Redskins and Cowboys were trying to create a competitive advantage over other teams when there are quite a few other teams in the league that have much bigger cap space?