And has all of that really hindered us from signing major talent? Only example
is in recent memory (D. Hopkins)... it wasn't why Brady nor Gronk left for greener pastures...
You don't figure that Brady, just for the one, might have stayed if he'd been given the appropriate salary for the appropriate number of years? Given that what he was asking for was the appropriate salary for the appropriate number of years, and that this was wide out in the open as opposed to being any kind of secret, I think we're going to have to disagree on this.
From 2000-2024, what FAs did we totally whiff on? When we had cap space in 2021
and two QB's with one on a rookie contract and another on a 1M contract......we surely didn't have a problem spending millions on Jonnu Smith, Hunter Henry, and Matt Judon...amongst others...
Are you really going to have me go show all the FAs they screwed the pooch on? The list is long, and distinguished, like my johnson.
And I'm not sure that pointing to the one season where they really spent, and did a pretty poor job of it, is really the way you want to go with this.
If we were the Celtics..whiffing on KD after
bringing in Brady to court him even...
I would be with you on the "Krafty is a cheap bastard" bandwagon...
Why? The miss on Durant wasn't about money.
The man spends money..a lot of it...
Not in comparison to every other owner in the NFL over the past decade.
At the end of the day, the cap represents actual spending the same way accrual
based accounting does, IMO.
That is simply not correct.
We are gonna spend 250M this year whether that is all up front cash or past spent cash....doesnt't matter. If our cap CASH spending is only 25M with another 175M in dead money...it is because we already gave some players 175M in the past.
Again, that is not correct.
Sure, you can get creative with accounting and keep kicking the can down the road...but there is a reason we paid Cam
only 1M to be one of the only 32 people on the planet to start a NFL game on Sundays......
They've spent at the very bottom for players over the past decade. That's just the reality. They paid Cam that money because he was the only one left, and was desperate for a job, and they did that rather than spending for one of the better QBs that had been available earlier in the offseason. And they got what they paid for, which was a guy who didn't belong starting NFL games.
They were able to get away with saving money because they had Brady, who is the greatest force multiplier on offense that football has ever seen. Once Brady left, that system crashed. That's bad enough. What makes it worse is that they might have won more SBs if they hadn't been skimping. A better depth player, or a top end player somewhere, might have made all the difference against the Eagles in 2017, for example, once BB decided that he'd rather lost a game than play Butler. The same could be said for 2015 where, again, having another player might have made the difference when the injuries were killing the team in that playoff season. That's just two obvious seasons, so I'm not sure why you're white knighting something that is what it is.
