Arizona's Finest said:
Guys can we PLEASE stop defending ownership for not doing something EVERY OTHER NFL TEAM DOES. The cards have made great strides over the years but this is probably the final piece to prove we have legit owners. I guess i will give them till next year when the stadium money comes rolling in but Billy boy sure ain't helping his cheap image with this much money under the cap. I mean how much can bowties and vanilla ice cream really cost?
The only problem is that you're wrong on most of your points.
1. Almost every team is under the cap this season. So Bidwill isn't doing anything that every team isn't doing, either.
2. You fail to recognize the cap strategy used by the team (also used by PHI, PIT, MIN, BAL).This team doesn't sign player for the sake of signing players. The cap space will be spend to extent Hayes, Big, Fitz, Moore etc., and spend in such a way that we'll have even more cap space to sign FAs next year. Building for the future instead of overspending now.
3. I get annoyed when reading posts like this. You have every right to criticize the ownership for various things, but at least base your criticism on facts.
You wanted them to sign Bentley, Lewis, Makeatu, Hutch etc. etc. Problem is...
Bentley only wanted to sign with the Browns. Seattle wouldn't have allowed us to sign Hutch. Well, who was next on the list? That would be Milford Brown. The guy that we signed.
You wanted Makeatu or Lewis. Makeatu signed a huge deal with the biggest off-season favorite. I doubt more money would have convinced him to sign with us. Instead, we signed the 2nd best DT available in Free Agency in Clancy. A player ranked way ahead of Lewis.
RT. The only available was Runyan and he didn't want to leave the east-coast. After that ther weren't any players available. Not anyone better than Gorin or Liewienski that is.
I will agree with you on one thing. We could have upgraded the CB position with a player like Will Allen. He would provide depth and most likely beat Green/Macklin out of the starting line-up.