Yep @dreamcastrocks nailed what I was about to say.
Absolutely. This happens from grade school on. The rich kid has all the “friends”. People are drawn to people who have everything.
Last season the Cardinals were 19th in Active Cash Spending, while the Rams were 26th.
Absolutely incorrect. Teams consistently are in cap hell, then kick the can down the road for years and years through cunning contract re-structures. In the long run, it very much doesn't even out. Reference this years Saints.Last season the Cardinals were 19th in Active Cash Spending, while the Rams were 26th.
With the cap rules, a team can spend way over the cap one year via bonuses, but then must spend under the cap in future seasons since bonuses already paid out are counting against the cap. In the long run, it all evens out, unless a team actually pockets money rather than spending up to the cap maximum - which the Cardinals have not done.
Assuming the Cardinals give Murray a new contract with a huge bonus this offseason, they'll probably jump to at least in the top 10, and possibly top 5 in Active Cash Spending for this season.
...dave
Exactly, Pugh knows with him playing center lol
Last season the Cardinals were 19th in Active Cash Spending, while the Rams were 26th.
With the cap rules, a team can spend way over the cap one year via bonuses, but then must spend under the cap in future seasons since bonuses already paid out are counting against the cap. In the long run, it all evens out, unless a team actually pockets money rather than spending up to the cap maximum - which the Cardinals have not done.
Assuming the Cardinals give Murray a new contract with a huge bonus this offseason, they'll probably jump to at least in the top 10, and possibly top 5 in Active Cash Spending for this season.
I shouldn't have said that a team could spend way over the cap "one year", meant to say "for a short time". But the point remains... over the long run, it has to balance out. There's no way to perpetually spend over the cap.
Yep, would be nice to load up and fill the remaining holes to make a run for a couple years while many of the pieces are in place including a young QB. Somehow the Rams loaded up last year while being 26th in Active Cash Spending at the beginning of the season.
What does this even mean?
A. We have a long history of sucking at finding good young QB talent in the draft
Fun fact: that was 25 years ago.
Right, so this means this franchise should never draft a potential franchise QB that could provide us 10+ years of good play instead of just 3.
Two time MVP Kurt Warner and #1 overall pick, All Pro, and 3x Pro Bowler Carson Palmer are "journeyman". Your definition of journeyman is a unique one, I'll say that.
I'm pretty sure both Kurt and Carson struggled early on here. Also, why wasn't this the case for Sam Bradford?
Right, because what happened 22 years ago in a completely different era of football should be the rule, not the exception. Lets also construct one of the best defenses of all time cause I know you're confident in Steve Keim drafting good talent to do it.
By definition, a journeyman is a trained worker who goes on to work for someone else. In QB speak it is a player who plays for multiple teams.
If Tom Brady and Matt Stafford are your definition of Journeyman QBs we have no common ground to land on.
Um, our worst seasons were just like that too. We have had way more bad seasons, than good.
I would not call either of them journeymen since they are only with their second teams, but they do fit the argument of going and grabbing an established vet rather than grooming some flashy young QB and going through the growing pains each time you try that route.
When short QBs start piling up championships height will no longer matter.
We should have a moratorium on comparing anything to the Tom Brady Experience. Extending your logic you could say the cards should just start stsrting 5th round QBs and we’ll win 8 Super Bowls.
Another myopic view. Not surprising I guess.
If the premise is that our franchise is better suited for a veteran QB in his 30s who knows how to be a pro vs a rookie QB who has to learn those things, I can get that.
Preferring veteran quarterbacks is where I’ve landed for a long time, but you can’t just be like “Go get Tom Brady.” The movement we saw at the QB position this season is fairly unprecedented. I would’ve loved to get Ryan Tannehill from Miami and be in Tennessees position, but his ceiling is not as high as Kyler’s (obviously).
Or Korean Americans since you dragged race into this.
You aren't making the statement you think you are with this. In fact, you are only proving my point more.
