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AlbaNY_Ram
An additional comment to your third point :"For the umpteenth time, the more any single player is paid, the less remains for other players in this cap era. Therefore, controlling salaries as best they can is a prudent Ram strategy overall."

'Controlling salaries' is not the same thing as searching for ways to underpay a player.

If, hypothetically, the Rams are offering $21M a year and Donald is asking for $25M a year it would seem to me that the Rams were looking to control salaries without underpaying Donald. And I'm not saying this is what is happening: I'm just saying that when one reads 'controlling salaries' one should not assume that underpaying Donald is what is implied.

I agree with your general point AR. But, this whole idea that you have to screw players over to have a team under the cap?.

It's nonsense. That's not the only way to do things. As teams prove all the time.

All teams invest most of their cap (some say 60%) in a handful of key players.

The only thing to fear under those circumstances is having a bad personnel dept.

Because the rest of your roster comes from draft picks, UDFAs, "ronin" (young vets cut from other teams), budget FAs (like with the 99 Rams: Nutten, Gruttadauria, and McCollum), trades...it's how the 99 Rams were built in fact.

This whole idea that you have to screw over or move on from star, transcendent players so you can sign a couple of pretty good players?

Well it's one way to do things I guess.

The trouble comes when we act like that's the ONLY way to do things and so render ourselves blind to the others.

You don't punish players for being among the best who ever wore your uniform. You build around them.








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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2018 11:50AM by zn.