CALIHAWK1":1f5eumcz said:
I didn't hear but I would assume maybe your reading a little too much into it. We are under cap now. What would be the point of cutting him this year?
Seems to be a running theme around here, that we just
have to cut some starter/valuable player. I'm not sure why, with us being on a potential SB run, we would want to start ditching important contributors.
And all for some chimeric 'future salary cap' ramifications. I put it all in the same category of those who advocate throwing games to improve draft position. They play a few seasons as a fantasy team owner and think they can apply the 'lessons' learned there to the real world or something.
Back in the day, after the whole Walter Jones thing settled out, for a few years a lot of people starting asking, "Who do we franchise this season?" like it was some requirement or something. No, you don't have to franchise tag anyone if you don't have to. The most important question there is "Why?" would you franchise someone if you don't need to. In this case, the most important question is still "Why should we cut someone if there is no immediate need under the cap?" If you do have money to roll over, that's nice. But you don't sacrifice this season just to have a 'better' position next season. You worry about next year's cap after February or so.
