I think most of us were pumped to see the Bills have the highest amount of cap space to work with - other than SF. But what got me thinking is a couple factors:
1 - there are nearly 20 teams this offseason with 20+ million in cap space
2 - the FA pool is extremely week this year
What does this mean?
Honestly, I think it screws us.
There are maybe 50-100 decent players that will be on the market. That works out to less than 2-3 players per team, depending on how you do the math. This is going to create a huge bidding war and knowing how Ralph operates via Free Agency, I don't think this is a good sign for us.
I see a lot of average players getting above-average salaries, and teams with an average cap figure still being able to lure guys via huge bonuses.
Even worse, some of the good teams with bad cap situations (IE Indy, BAL) can afford to bypass Free Agency because they don't need to improve that much. This means they can essentially save $$ for a forthcoming year with better talent to be had... and the good teams with great cap situations (IE NE, DAL) can afford to toss a lot of money - even if just for 1 impact player - to a guy who's talent might not justify his inflated pay increase.
I'd like to look at this optimistically, but I really feel like we have a good chance at getting dicked this year and will be forced to build through the draft as always.
Even worse - it could really screw the league up even more now that "average" athletes are going to get "superstar" money.
1 - there are nearly 20 teams this offseason with 20+ million in cap space
2 - the FA pool is extremely week this year
What does this mean?
Honestly, I think it screws us.
There are maybe 50-100 decent players that will be on the market. That works out to less than 2-3 players per team, depending on how you do the math. This is going to create a huge bidding war and knowing how Ralph operates via Free Agency, I don't think this is a good sign for us.
I see a lot of average players getting above-average salaries, and teams with an average cap figure still being able to lure guys via huge bonuses.
Even worse, some of the good teams with bad cap situations (IE Indy, BAL) can afford to bypass Free Agency because they don't need to improve that much. This means they can essentially save $$ for a forthcoming year with better talent to be had... and the good teams with great cap situations (IE NE, DAL) can afford to toss a lot of money - even if just for 1 impact player - to a guy who's talent might not justify his inflated pay increase.
I'd like to look at this optimistically, but I really feel like we have a good chance at getting dicked this year and will be forced to build through the draft as always.
Even worse - it could really screw the league up even more now that "average" athletes are going to get "superstar" money.
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