Dead money and scouting

[JWsleep]

A recent wash. Times article talks about our dead money issue and says we've failed "capology." But I think this is actually incorrect. The skins haven't been forced to just drop people because of the cap, like the Titans did. Instead, it's that we've released or traded people who didn't work out for one reason or another, or we've got dead meat riding the pine and taking up money (read: Brunnell).

This is more a matter of bad scouting than cap problems. And for all that, we've got a D with Lavar and Washington as bookend LBs, Griffen, Taylor, Springs, and a great coordinator. We've got good bookend offensive tackles, a good right guard in THomas, and a good looking center coming in. We've got Portis. We've got Cooley. And we've got Ramsey who's improving. The wideouts are a question mark, to be sure, and we could use a good blocking TE. Smoot and the MLB position are up in the air. So we've got some dead money right now, but we're not so bad.

And here's the kicker. I think with Coles' release, Samuel's restrucing, Jansen's restructuring, Thomas's restructuring, and the players we've released, we're gonna be WAY under the cap next year. (I could be wrong, so maybe Canuck can confirm this.) If that's true, so much for failing "capnomics." Now if we can just scout properly!

(Actually, our scouts got us Taylor and Cooley, Washington and Springs, so it ain't all bad... )