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Rams43
Well, let’s take a look at that.
Let’s assume that your 2020 cap number of $200 million is correct.
Goff $30 million
AD $23 million
Cooks $16 million
Peters $18 million
Those 4 players put us at $87 million already. The next 4-6 players will surely exceed your remaining $33 million in order to remain at $120 million or 60% of overall cap that “winning teams” spend on their top 10 players.
And, even if they could somehow do that impossible looking feat, then we still have a problem. We need to somehow fit 43 more players in for a combined $80 million. That’s less than $2 million per player.
And at least 12 of them must be starters in addition to our 10 included above PLUS Hekker, GZ, and McQuaide.
Like I’ve said before, the cap is like a big pizza. The bigger the slice going to one player means a correspondingly smaller slice for other players. It’s a zero sum thing.
Look, I get that top players are gonna get top salaries. That’s the free market at work. But I also see why the Rams are trying to hold down the top salaries in order to have money for other needed players.
I am a fan of the team and consequently want what’s best overall for the team. It’s ultimately like a family budget problem. Should they get the Ferrari when both mom and dad need a car to get to work?
Just saying that there will be some excruciating personnel decisions coming up in these next few years.
This was a rational and logical point of view Rams43