Check this out. [www.spotrac.com]

Cox is top salary at $17.9 million and 9.3% of total.

Top 6 salaries total approx 36% of overall cap.

Top 8 salaries total approx 43.5% of overall cap.

Top 10 salaries total approx 49% of overall cap.

And the Eagles are over their cap budget, at least on paper, meaning that they aren’t being cheap, just spreading their cap dollars around more evenly among many players, not just the top 5-6.

Eagles are known to be huge proponents of analytics.

Eagles overcame huge losses of starting QB and starting LOT to win SB.

BTW, Vikings, another top NFL team, have similar top 6 player salary cap numbers at approx 41%. And that’s with Cousins at $24 million cap hit of 12.1% of total!

So, what to conclude?

Hmmmmm...

Not entirely sure, but maybe there’s another alternative to placing 50-60% of our cap dollars into just 6 players? AD at $22 million would be 12.4% of today’s cap alone. At $25 million he would be 14.1%.

I would love to extend AD, but I can certainly understand the Demoff analytics and budget control argument for long term success, too.