[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

OK, yet another ridiculous innaccuracy in this thread regarding cap management. I think Canuck needs to teach a class (Canuck I had a feeling you were a fellow finance guy, now I'm sure of it after that cost of capital post).

When you RENEGOTIATE a contract you are RARELY adding more money. You're taking the roster bonus or base salary from the old contract and turning it into a signing bonus. The player doesn't care what you call the payment, they just care that they're getting it. They sign a deal for the same amount of money they were previously contracted for, and the cap hit is spread evenly over multiple seasons rather than hitting all that year. Every one of the Skins' big contracts are structured this way on purpose, so that when the big roster bonuses are due they can then be renegotiated into signing bonuses. Brunell and Jansen just restructured in this very manner. Moss, Springs, Portis, and several others will all do the same thing in the next few years.

thats wrong, you do add more gauranteed money then whats left on the last contract or players don't sign it. If you didn't understand my post that's fine, but that doesn't make it either ridiculous or inaccurate. And your wrong if you don't think players care about what they're making or how much gauranteed money is in the deal. Samuels has refused to rework his contract a while back, wynn reufsed to rework his i believe under spurrier, it happens.

And this I find to be absurd. Football in the NFL is a team game, you need depth more than you need stars. Yes, Sean Taylor does great things for our team, and he's probably the MVP of the defense. But that's not to say guys like Joe Salavea'a and Lemar Marshall aren't incredibly important.

did i say they weren't? you can get depth in the draft too, and its not any more expensive outside of the first or second round. I was saying that generally better players get drafted than go undrafted. I fail to see how that's absurd. It seems like you're argueing just to argue, cause you're implying arguements i've never made.

And if I can add one thing, just for a friggin reality check... don't you see a difference between the team this year and the team before Gibbs got here?

I have no idea where this came from... am i not allowed to discuss topics here without being accused of not liking gibbs, the team or whatever you're trying to imply?