Tracking our spending for 2012

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1061320-nfl-rumors-latest-speculation-on-mario-williams-tennessee-titans

 

How sure is everyone that Williams will make a full recovery back to his old self next season?

Not sure how pectoral tears heal or anything.

Just seems weird to throw lots of cash at people coming back from season ending injuries. Sure, you win out sometimes like NO did with Brees. But more often than not the player is never the same.

 

No to Moss. Are you guys insane? There's no way he wants to play here and there's no way the FO even considers him. Honestly, I'd be surprised if he plays anywhere next year.

 

Something I've been wondering about... well, take a look at this article:

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/report-tampa-bay-buccaneers-have-second-most-salary-cap-space-at-nearly/1215291

I've seen a few articles like this...

We won't know until free agency, but our $30 million under may be a drop in the bucket if we don't opt to roll our cap savings over. Players may get huge contracts this year. A lot of teams will have a lot of room to sign players. Also, looking at that, there's really no excuse for not signing our own players.

 

Wow that is crazy. Can you roll it over multiple years? If so, that's just insanity... a team could build up for a like a 10 year mad spending spree where they could spend over the cap every year, right?

 

I'm not sure if it's a temporary thing or whatever... From what I've read, it can be rolled over into 2013 instead of 2012.

 

It's not a lot compared to $60 million. I mean, this isn't a team that gets involved in bidding wars anyway. We're likely to see a very uneventful first and second day of free agency... just like every other year. The point is we may find a drought on day three this year compared to other years. We'll see...

Something that irks me though is the talk about how Finny might break the bank if we sign him. I don't think he would even with $30 million under, but we also have the ability to allocate more cap space this year. We always hear the talk about us building through the draft, but if we let every talented player we draft walk, we're not building, we're farming for the rest of the NFL.

 

As far as where the cap money is spent, I am improving my O and D lines before I sink a ton of money into a DB.The best corner can't cover when the QB has all day to throw. That said I would love to keep Finnegan at the right price,but we may be outbid when he hits the market.The Lions already have a dominant D-line and a final piece to a great D could be a feisty corner

 

Randy Moss has never had any of those three....