Dolphins break the free agent bank record
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I guess that's the market these days. If Grove solidifies the center of the line and Wilson does the same for the secondary, down the line this will look like a better FA class than it does to me at present.
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I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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The numbers are going on how much the total contract is worth not the amount they'll make this year.
And yet the ratriots and Jets (albeit names) have been more than busy this FA period... We must still be in cap hell!?
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jus a guess... could it be because we havent had this much cap room and that would allow us to spend more money ???
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How about the Skins? They signed one player (Hayensworth) to a contract worth more than all of the Fins' free-agent's combined..... At least I think.
Oh please, I get a little tired of this lazy journalism.
The average salary increased nearly 300% between 1992 and 2001 (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/ChrisCha.shtml) so of course we're going to have spent more.
Plus, with last year's kind of low earning bunch of players and getting rid of some large contracts such as JT and Zach, we were always going to spend big bucks because there was so much to spend. You could say we were behind on average salary per starter.
If the doof was going to talk money constructively, he'd compare our FA spend to other teams, especially divisional rivals over the last couple of years, not our own FA spend over the last 17.
It just so happened that micro management with the cap and contracts earned us a big salary hole to fill, which makes the overall spend appear high. Our 2009 FA has merely brought us flat and steady with other teams. Whilst (hopefully) filling quite a few starting places with quality players previously occupied by, well... bums.
The average salary increased nearly 300% between 1992 and 2001 (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/ChrisCha.shtml) so of course we're going to have spent more.
Plus, with last year's kind of low earning bunch of players and getting rid of some large contracts such as JT and Zach, we were always going to spend big bucks because there was so much to spend. You could say we were behind on average salary per starter.
If the doof was going to talk money constructively, he'd compare our FA spend to other teams, especially divisional rivals over the last couple of years, not our own FA spend over the last 17.
It just so happened that micro management with the cap and contracts earned us a big salary hole to fill, which makes the overall spend appear high. Our 2009 FA has merely brought us flat and steady with other teams. Whilst (hopefully) filling quite a few starting places with quality players previously occupied by, well... bums.
SnakeoilSeller
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Salguero is an absolute idiot. He is counting resigning our own players before they hit the free agent market. All he wants to continually do is paint the Fins in a bad light. I wish he would just quit or go cover badminton or something. So if we would have spent 70 million last year resigning Carey, Crowder and Bell then that would not have been considered free agent money? Idiot
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Another piece of garbage put out by Armando.
He is counting the total contract for all the signings. Rarely go players actually see all this money. A majority of this is just paper funny money.
This is complete misleading journalism.
Looking at it this way.
Last year Pittsburgh spent 102 million on Ben Roethisberger alone. (over 8 years)
I would actually like to see the amount of cap hit for each free agent we signed and add that all together. But, that would take some actual research by Armando, not just the adding of the total salaries.
This article means absolutely nothing. I don't know how someone can consistently put out this type of garbage and still have a job
He is counting the total contract for all the signings. Rarely go players actually see all this money. A majority of this is just paper funny money.
This is complete misleading journalism.
Looking at it this way.
Last year Pittsburgh spent 102 million on Ben Roethisberger alone. (over 8 years)
I would actually like to see the amount of cap hit for each free agent we signed and add that all together. But, that would take some actual research by Armando, not just the adding of the total salaries.
This article means absolutely nothing. I don't know how someone can consistently put out this type of garbage and still have a job
Actually we started the FA season in a better cap situation than both the jets and pats..but remember the pats signed guys to a bunch of 1 year deals.. We still have close to 10 mil to spend.. and if we don't resign players during the year or add more than the draftees and a couple of FA's, we'll have close to 44 mil to start next year's FA.
I agree that Armando is making no sense....but why does it bother you guys so much? Stop worrying so much about what all the writers write....who cares what they say? It doesn't matter.The only thing that matters in football is wins or loses.
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Agreed that this article is a lotta words about nothing, but he did mention that the $136 million spend by our front office this year still is under the $142 million the Jets splurged last year. He's just trying to find something to write about.