bignick33 {l Wrote}:commavegarage {l Wrote}:bignick33 {l Wrote}:commavegarage {l Wrote}:bignick33 {l Wrote}:It says something about how the Jets view Braylon Edwards that they decide not to re-sign him in no small part due to questions about his character and instead sign a guy who's been in jail for almost two years.
You do realize there's something called a salary cap in the National Football League, right? Because it doesn't sound like you do.
I realize that the NFL salary cap is largely a crock of shit that can be fairly easily manipulated, and that this is something the Jets to their credit have mastered. How else would you explain a $50 million deal for Santonio Holmes with a cap hit of merely $2.5 million?
You're an idiot. [bunch of non-coherent ramblings]
I don't for a second believe that it was as simple as a one-or-the-other proposition. The Holmes deal as an example that teams can offer big contracts with small cap hits (so that they are both team and player friendly in the short-term) is absolutely relevant in demonstrating that the Jets likely could have signed both Cromartie and Edwards had they chosen to. Obviously salaries had something to do with the Jets' signing Plax as opposed to Braylon, but I believe that Edwards' less than stellar dependability did as well.
There's a reason I don't make statements like this about the Patriots. It's because I don't have anywhere near the knowledge of their cap situation the way I do the Jets. It's funny to watch uniformed people make unintelligent statements. Again, go check what these players were making last year and come back to me telling me that they could've signed Santonio, Edwards, Cromartie and Smith.