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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 866753">And the cap cost of those players signed last year is rapidly escalating.  We were habituated to the Thompson approach of limiting back-loading of contracts.  For all Gutekunst recent talk of being a Wolf and Thompson man, those backloaded contracts were uncharacteristic to say the least.  It's pay me now or pay me later--with these players it is later and later is now, and even more next year.  Rodgers renegotiation to get 11 mil in cap space this year exacerbated that issue.You've got half a dozen core player whose cap cost next year will be $50 mil more than last year.  That's signficant.You cannot do what Gutekunst did last year over and over unless you start cutting guys or let free agents walk that you'd rather keep and have to replace.  It's not the cap space that has Gutekunst saying he cannot be aggressive.  It's the cap liabilities on the books for next year that give him pause, along with a more impressive group of free agents than this year's group.Any idiot could go all-in and sign guys to five year contracts with a first year salary of $1 mil, give them whomping signing bonuses (players love those), and push the cap hit out to years 2-5.  I would not expect any of those.Now, you could be right if the insiders know the cap will leap next year.  But being right in ignorance isn't really right at all, it is just an accident.</blockquote>

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