The Cardinals lately haven't had a problem with escalators, regular NFL contracts, etc.
I will agree they don't seem to spend to the cap each year but then again we haven't been one or two players away either.
I've maintained that some of that extra cap money goes to pay off the $ they have to put into the stadium, that's not the best thing from a fan perspective but to come back to 40's business point, we don't know what their finances are like.
My take after years of watching this team is that you are both right, to some extent we don't spend all we could, however, not having a stadium all these years has probably left them in a bit of a hole that may take a year or two to work out of.
Once the naming rights are done, I expect a lot of this will disappear but on a final note, none of this has a thing to do with Leinart's deal, that deal is what it is and was destined to be a problem from day one.
He dropped the farthest of any player in the draft value wise, until we see the final deal we don't know who was being unreasonable, when or how much, we may never know, but a rookie contract has very little to do with being cheap, it's mostly about two sides having varying opinions on the safety of the pick, maybe the Cardinals know more about his health than you do and are trying to protect themselves from that, or maybe Leinart is trying to hijack them.
I really doubt the cheap label applies here and as to not spending to the cap, you have more ground to stand on that issue than on the Leinart one IMO.
The Bidwills have never had a stadium of their own, they had to pay a large chunk to get it, largely it's been reported they would pay that off with the naming rights, those haven't come through yet.
In this former St. Louis Cardinal fan's opinion, you all should just drop this issue because when you got the team you promised them a stadium you didn't deliver for how long?
It dosen't matter how inept the management may have been in the past, when the team relocated there it was promised a stadium, inept or not that was fully public knowledge for anyone to check out, yet no stadium came with this or that excuse tied to it.
If they are cheap or have been cheap from a business standpoint it was required IMO. To fail to acknowledge that is just not being realistic IMO.
To expect them to start spending like mad as soon as the dollars roll in isn't realistic either, they have to pay down some debt more than likely so can't spend yet like they'd like to.
The signs are all there that they mean to, I'd say so far they've done a decent balancing act but opinions could differ.
. You dont give people here enough credit, they all must be uneducated wusses or something the way you are talking. I am belligerent and overbearing, what ever, at least I hvent gone low enough by insulting anyone or their families yet. But hey to each is own.
