Current Redskins Salary Cap Status - 2009

[Chico23231]

Springs, Griffin, Fletcher are great examples of good contracts and production. Yeah the misses though, and some are on the team now, have been extremely impactful not only on salary cap but more on team building. I disagree and diffently think mismanagement with the cap has hurt this team under the basic principle you have more money to spend on better players if you dont over spend or over bid for guys who dont fit you team, scheme, etc. Dead cap space? Team building through the draft is the way to go. We need to keep our draft picks and put money into scouting talent. Also when it comes to depth it is important...man look at the Oline...wow that is sorry. IMO bad cap mismanagement is not the biggest problem but is a contributing factor. Plus those guys you mention really havent won us anything.

[JoeRedskin]

As to the dead cap space issue, we will just have to disagree - dead cap only is a problem if you have to let go players or not aquire players b/c you can't fit them under the cap. I don't care if we overpay as long as DS keeps handing out cash. I do care that we have not had a focused theme in our team philosophy other than "do anything, get anyone" in hopes it will improve us. The cap simply has not been an impediment to our aquiring or retaining anyone we wanted to.

As to the depth issue, we have had lots of picks and it was how we used them that got us into trouble. Had we picked OLine instead of Davis and/or Kelly/Thomas would we be in the OLine mess now? maybe - maybe not. Or perhaps instead of Henson and/or Glenn? or D. Brooks?. We have had lots of missed opportunities and several "You picked who???" moments in the draft. Throw in a few dumb trades (Lloyd, Duckett) made b/c no one was there to say "whoa there buddy... we'll manage w/out those guys" and that to me is what has cost us our depth.

The article bashed DS for mishandling the cap. That is an old story that is simply wrong. DS has artfully managed the cap by spending cold hard cash to avoid its negative consequences.

Lack of focus in player aquisition (whether by FA signings, trades, or drafting) and a lack of long term strategy/philosophy is what brought us to this mess not bad cap management.