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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. |
They can make whatever argument they want. They don't have to prove a competitive advantage. They had no ADVANTAGE. Every other team had the opportunity to do the same if they pleased. They all agreed to not do it. Their loss.
If 9 of my closest friends and I are offered a pile of money to split evenly amongst ourselves and 8 decide they don't want to take it then they can't change their mind and come back in 2 years and file a lawsuit claiming I stole their money. I mean they can but they'd most likely get thrown out of court. Now can the NFL and it's owners do the similar? Perhaps procedurally they can. But that doesn't make it right.