Lol. Im sorry, I didn't realize making it through one season of a huge contract makes them invulnerable to injury, and a large chunk of our cap is unable to produce from the sideline for the duration of the injury and potentially into years that they are no longer with the team. Berry and Houstons 15 mil dead money this year was so satisfying to pay them. Cant wait to drop another 8 mil on Berry next season!! Best contract evaaaar.

My bad though. All of Clarks injuries are behind him now obviously, so its smooth sailing on that 100 mil boys!! Back up that Brings truck on Jones!

Jones' production in the divisional playoff alone helping us come back from 24-0, shows why we cannot succeed in the post season without him. WE MUST MAKE HIM THE HIGHEST PAID DEFENDER NAOWWWW!!

Idiot.

This argument isnt against any single player, you short sighted dipshit, it is about the risk associated with dropping 3-4 players worth of cash on one player.

Hasn't panned out well in the past.

Christ youre ****ing obtuse.

You're using a hypothetical injury as your main reason that Mathieu and Clarks contract and Jones' potential contract might be bad, but im obtuse? I know it's literally the only possible reason you have to not sign Jones, but it's making you look like you crawled too high up a wall, fell, and the end result was a mild case of mental reerunation.

Look at a list of the best D tackles to ever play. There's something all of those guys have in common and that is they played either there whole careers with the same team or at most 2 teams. Between these guys who are arguably the best 10 DTs of all time only 3 of them played on more than 1 team.

Casey Hampton - 1 team
Buck Buchanan - 1
Warren Sapp - 2 (Played on 2nd team during his decline. Was 32 years old when he went to 2nd team. Worst years of his career)
Randy White - 1
Cortez Kennedy - 1
John Randle - 2 (went to 2nd team when he was 34)
Bob Lily - 1
Merlin Olsen - 1
Mean Joe Greene - 1
Alan Page - 2 (went to 2nd team at 33 years old)

Teams just don't let their stud D tackles go. When are all pro talent d tackles ever available for trade or in FA? Its just a position that is filled with so many busts that when you get one like Chris Jones you don't let him leave before he's even hit his prime, especially if the only reason you can come up with is that he might get hurt.

Making CJ the highest paid defender in the NFL (IF that’s what he’s wanting) is a big risk and I wouldn’t do it.

That said, if Veach does, then I have to trust he knows something that I don’t (I.e. cap exploding in a couple years).

I can’t honestly believe that a GM like Veach would risk a potential Mahomes dynasty just to pay Jones big bank out of some misplaced sense of loyalty.

So IVIT.

No, we are not.

Big Risk: trying to light your cigarette off of a jet engine.

Calculated risk: making a move on a girl who hasn't expressed verbal consent, but you have read the room and know that it's on, provided you aren't Harvey Weinstein.

Because the defense overall will be significantly worse by losing multiple starters, having no depth, and being unable to upgrade positions of weakness. That's a reason.

It's just one that you - and all the other Chris Jones absolutists - are determined to ignore or dismiss.

Who are the multiple starters we will be losing?

Mathieu, Clark, Nnadi, Ward, Thornhill, Hitchens, Wilson, and Kpass will all be back. Counting Jones that’s 9 of 11. You’re losing Breeland and Ragland in terms of starters.

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Okafor will be back as well!

I want to keep Jones and I think we need to ,also tired of reading wall climbers shit on an on about it lol. But isn’t the list you put up almost entirely of people who played before the cap?

Hahaha, what the hell? Let's pretend I'm not using your suggested parameters of what a "big risk" entails, how about that?

My implied version of a "big risk" is shall we say less reckless than trying to light a smoke off the exhaust plume of my aircraft.

Let's try this instead: when I was a kid for a few years I raced downhill (skiiing) in NASTAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASTAR).

In that discipline there were basically three different 'lines' one could take on any given course. There was a fast line, a safe line, and a compromise line, which was basically between the two. The fast line was the riskiest, steepest line, but would get you across the finish line in the shortest time IF you could stay on your skis all the way down. The problem was that the odds of staying on your skis and on your edges through the entire run on the fast line was always a low percentage route. Kind of skiing's version of a 60-yard Hail Mary pass.

In perfectly ideal conditions you might consider that line. But if the weather was bad, or the surface wasn't ideal, or whatever, you tended to ski closer to the safe line. That might be right on the compromise line, or it might be a little to the fast or slow side depending on the exact situation.

Now what I learned in the short time I competed was that if you wanted any real chance to win, you ignored the safe line almost completely. It was like it didn't exist. Instead the medium or compromise line was your 'safe' line. You skied as close to that fast line as you could and never skied slower than the compromise line. Otherwise you just had no chance to win.

So when I say taking a "big risk" what I'm really saying is aim for as close to that fast line as we can get without losing your edge.

Make sense?

Another example would be pool. I still play pool, though I'm not at the top of my game anymore. But I've played more than a half a million games since I started playing competitively, played in more than a thousand tournaments, and I still play a few local sanctioned tournaments, I just don't play to go to Vegas or Atlantic city or wherever, anymore. So of the things I could say I'm proficient or expert in performance-wise, 8- and 9-ball pool would be among them.

And what I know for a fact is that you can't win in the big tournaments unless you're willing, and more importantly, comfortable taking risks. Some of those risks are just calculated risks of course, but if you want to win a regional qualifier (such as the Desert Classic here in AZ) or if you want to beat the best players in the country you have to be ready to "go all in" every once in a while. Yes, you have to pick your spots; you can't just go all in on every shot or even every game, but there's always that moment in a game or in a match or whatever, when you can try to play conservative and hope to come out on top later, or you can just push all your chips in, so to say, and go for the win. But if you always pick the conservative play, I guarantee you'll never win the big money. That player always ends up some kind of runner-up.

P.S. Some dipstick will think I meant that I won the Desert Classic because of what I posted above. No, I never won the Desert Classic qualifier, but I have placed high enough to qualify for Vegas, which is all I meant.

I thought I heard last week. There would be about 22 mil in roll over money. Must have said about 22 mil with the rollover. Tweaks not explained

XFL just cancelled their whole season however they will still fully pay their players their base salaries and benefits and all ticket season holders will be issued refunds. They will restart in 2021

The level of fail here is ****ing spectacular.

There was no ****ing Salary Cap until 1994.

Are you even ****ing aware of when Free agency where players had any ****ing unrestricted decisionmaking about where they played became an actual thing? When teams no longer had to not only get the team to give up right of refusal, but settle on draft compensation for the right to sign them?

1993.

Pease, tell me the story about how the Chiefs were able to keep Buck Buchanan from going elsewhere, by paying him a huge deal knowing they just couldnt let him entertain offers, while taking care of their "cap space". Lol. Jesus.

Half of these men you listed never even had an option to leave. The only way out was through trade. If the player was good, youd never trade them, and they played for peanuts. If they sucked, nobody was gonna give you shit for them in trade. LMMFAO. They were basicly indentured servants. You want to play, you play here. Or you retire.

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