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Originally Posted by Sainters7
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I hope you're right. Just the thought of Dan Snyder operating under a no cap system is frightening for me. The dude threw $100 million at a defensive tackle in a hard capped system. Imagine what he'd do without such restrictions? Scary..
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Yeah, but it didn't really help his football team win any games. It just cost him a big truck load of money. His new GM Bruce Allen never would have wanted to spend that on a player. Than consider that in the uncapped system a lot less guys are unrestricted so instead of Albert Haynesworth from last year being unretricted, it's Albert Haynesworth two years from now. At that point he no longer wants the player so badly.
The NFL has a very deep feeder system with NCAA football and for 80% of the players in the league after 6 years there is an equilvilent player coming out of the system to replace that guy. The production window for most players is pretty short. If they get a limit on rookie contracts and the free agency restrictions stay at 6 years....small market teams will be able to put good teams on the field, it's just that the fans won't be able to identify as many of the players as they will turn over most of their veteran guys every 6 years and be very selective about who they keep. In short it will force managment to be smarter whereas big market teams would continually make costly mistakes.