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Originally Posted by BroncoBuff
(A)Sure there were new players, but your accusations, and my defense, were about adding BETTER players than the current guys BECAUSE we made extra cap room by cheating.
(B)FB Howard Griffith was a downgrade from Aaron Craver:
95-96 AARON CRAVER - 25g, 525yd, 666rec, 9td
97-98 HOWARD GRIFFITH- 26g, 47yd, 152rec, 7td
OT Gary Zimmerman retired after first SB - 1st ballot HOF
So obviously there's cap room opened up there
Don't remember Willie Flipper Anderson ever being a Bronco
Neil Smith helped lots, but I mentioned him and I mentioned a few others on your list.
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(C) Guys, I told you. The League's position is they check EVERY roster EVERY week. If there's a problem with the cap they inform the team and the team has to make a change in their roster before they take the field.
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(A) The argument was your Donkeys added multiple players to their roster UNLIKE any other team did at that time -- for which they got called out for publicly by Al Davis, and the NFL fined them & docked them draft picks for TWICE, in order to save face and avoid a PR nightmare.
(B) Your Griffith argument is just a strawman & you ain't even got Griffith's stats correct. In 4 years, Griffith had 117 rushing yds & 445 receiving yds. Try again.
Zimmerman was on the 1997 roster wearing the grease on his jersey, but nothing about Zimmerman accounts for Swayne being added to the roster in 1997. And nothing you said about Neil Smith changes your statement of "added just Darrien Gordon and Neil Smith on defense" which was proven false (Keith Traylor, Dedrick Dodge).
(C) The only thing you're telling us is that the League office DIDN'T do what you are suggesting, and when the Donks got publicly exposed for cheating & violating the salary cap later on, they had to scramble to save face.
At the end of the day, the Donks all-time SB record still stands at 0 wins, 5 losses, and 3 given to them as going-away present (2 to Elway & 1 to Manning).