Marching Orders... Interesting Points

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

http://www.thewarpath.net/506536-post7.html

Scouting is a concern I think I brought up two or three years ago, and I believe they actually made a lot of changes at the lower levels last spring/summer so we'll see if it pays off.

Great point. I seem to remember reading somewhere about a year ago that our scouts are amont the lowest-paid in the league. considering how much Snyder constantly spent on his players and coaches, it didnt make sense to me that we wouldnt "splurge" on the best scouts money could buy. seriously, theres no salary cap on the scouting department and i'm sure few if any lowerlevel scouts make anywhere near 6 figures. if we're willing to garauntee huge sums of money to clinton portis and randy thomas, why not lure some of new englands or phillys scouts by offering to pay them 20% more to come here?

Also, on an unrelated topic, why doesnt the salary cap relate only to players currently on a teams active roster? One would think both the owners and the NFLPA would benefit from a system where a guy like Portis or Thomas could be cut/traded to another team if:

1) the player still got the garaunted portion of their salary.
2) the team did not take a cap hit for a player no longer on the team.

Lets take Randy Thomas, for example. We are on the hook to pay him something like 13M more garaunteed, if i remember correctly. Whether he's on the team or not, theyre going to pay him the money. If we could cut him without a cap penalty, we could benefit ourselves by freeing up a roster spot and have more cash on hand to find his replacement. Since he would be cut with a garaunteed payout from us, he could take the money and immediately go work for another team. Its a win/win situation. I'm sure there must be some reason why the salary cap rules dont work this way... so what am i missing?