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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 675554">Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying.  Thompson didn't fall out of bed one day with a revelation that he should cut Sitton.  His cap, the team's cap, his criticism of McCarthy in January...the wheels of risk/reward evaluation were already turning.  In kind, Sitton did not just roll out of bed and become a jerk.  Whatever personality or locker room issues were in play, they did not materialize overnight.  If something happened recently that tipped the risk/reward balance against Sitton, then the complaint becomes that an accurate crystal ball was not on hand.  Perhaps such a ball could have acquired with a 4th. round compensatory pick, though the odds would be they'd find a crack in it.Again, I'm not endorsing the move, I'm simply providing plausible and reasonable explanations for it.I'm in the camp that says do what you can to get to the SB now before the cap wall hits next season.  The NFC North is such a perennially crappy division that even with one more free agent loss from not gaining the Sitton cap space may do little in compromising a division title next season if that's all one aspires to.  As long as Rodgers is around, you pretty much start at 8-8 and work from there.</blockquote>

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