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Originally Posted by Mile High Mania
Well, they were hell bent on making a trade, at least Wilson is only 33. The players they gave up can be replaced.
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Yeah - Like I said, I'm a little wary if I'm a Broncos fan...but not much.
Think of how stoked we'd have been about this 5 years ago. Not everyone can have a 26 yr old superstar QB under contract for a decade.
As options go, Wilson's a good one. Perhaps a very good one still - hard to say. But I really would be a little reticent about the competitive window here. I think the Broncos might actually be best served to convert his salary to bonus this year, get as much cap space as possible and just
attack the FA market.
Giving up a lot of organizational capital to get a QB and then simultaneously diminish your roster around him while making it harder to build from within is a problem when said QB is 33 yrs old. You don't have a shitload of runway in front of you.
It's a solid FA group, so if you can make a splash in it this season, you'd be wise to do so.
Then the concern becomes the lack of an owner as the FA period opens. Who actually decides they're going to cut these checks for signing bonuses? present owner doesn't want to write checks he doesn't have to when it won't impact their selling price. Current owner...isn't in place, so THEY won't be writing any checks.
You can't get into the FA market without being willing to throw around some real cash. It's how you get those 'cheaper' deals - an owner willing to write a big ****ing signing bonus check that comes out of his pocket today but doesn't hit the cap all at once.
If all the Denver GM is empowered to do is go into the FA market and offer higher annual salaries and more guarantees that then go onto the new owners payroll, that's going to put him at a disadvantage. And frankly, that's the kind of thing that COULD devalue a franchise in sales talk. You don't want to be carrying big ol' long-term liabilities with your new purchase.