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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 765407">There's some merit in that.  On the other hand, matching thier FA offers would have cost about $26 million to date over 3 years.  While that might have made for a better defense, if we're engaging in 20/20 highsight we could say it would have been wasted cap since this team was going nowhere without Rodgers.  Today, you'd be at negative cap and not even able to sign the upcoming draft class as the roster stands now.Before that there was Willams and House as cap casualties, which were good moves given their FA deals and subsequent performance.The problem isn't that the Packers did not re-sign these guys.  The problem is the guys they drafted (read: "cheap rookie contracts"), first Randall and Rollins, then and King and Jones (where the book is still open), have not yielded the expected returns.A similar situation was dumping Sitton's cap (and a guy in his contract year who would become further unaffordable) and replacing him for a less expensive and competent replacement.  That worked well.If you're going to play the draft and development game then you must have good drafts and successfully develop those players.  That did not happen and that is the real problem, not the players they did not re-sign.  Good teams lose good players all of the time because they can't afford them.</blockquote>

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