Cap Implications of Josh Norman

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Who has 20-35M in cap space? Have you actually researched the numbers or are you just throwing that out there based on bad memory?

According to OvertheCap, here are the teams currently with more than $20M in space:

Jaguars $53,746,852 bad
49ers $51,727,851 bad
Browns $40,966,334 bad
Panthers $31,028,214 very good
Titans $29,422,028 bad
Bears $22,012,772 bad
Giants $20,977,063 bad

Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?

My memory wasn't too bad because you actually validated what I said about some teams having that kind of salary cap. That said, Why on earth do you think the Giants or Bears are bad teams? Realistically, the Giants probably should have won the division last season, but let 3-4 games get away from them in the last few minutes.

I retracted the "bad" statement and put us at mediocre. Let's be honest, in a better division, we wouldn't have been division champs. Our whole division sucked ass last year and we didn't beat a single team over .500. That's saying a lot. Remember, we are a year removed from being the #4 pick in the draft. We didn't accumulate that much talent in a years time to suddenly vault us into contender status. Are we Browns level bad? Absolutely not. Are we going to be favored to win our division this year? Absolutely not.

My only thought was there isn't that much separating us from some of those teams with a lot of cap room. Why is it we spend on guys that don't produce. I think the fact that carrying over cap can benefit us much better than overpaying for a scrub that isn't going to merit his contract. (Luvao, Hatcher, Roberts, Culliver, etc) Even when we were bad, we still were at the brink of being capped regularly.