Derrick Dockery signs with the Bills

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

I am not saying this is the downfall of the team, but it disappoints me and probably all of his offensive lineman and teammates when they dont try and keep their own players. Its not a good message. I just dont understand it. they dont want to pay our own players. Champ, Smoot, Pierce, Clark and those players are good players. But over pay for unproven players, Randel El, Lloyd, Carter. FA's love it because they come here and get paid, our own players leave pissed off because the team low balls them and lets them leave. This is why we will struggle every year to have a team of depth a team that doesn't have to struggle every year to get under the cap, a team that doesn't make the playoffs but 1 out of 10 years.

I sympathize with your thoughts on this one 56 and I agree with many of them. But I don't think it's fair to say that we struggle and lack depth every year because we overpay players, and then say that we should have re-signed a slightly-above-average guard for basically the same deal Champ Bailey got. The cap makes signings a zero sum game and signing Dock would have meant that we would have been unable to sign other guys at more important areas (e.g., the entire defense).