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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 789664">Oh, by the way, had the Packers traded for Mack and signed him to the same deal as Chicago, that would have put the team about $1.7 mil over the cap for 2018.More problematically, his cap number for 2019 goes up to $22.3 mil.  That would have put the Packers top 51 cap commitments for 2019 at about $172 mil with no Cobb, Matthews, C-D, Wilkerson, Montgomery or Ryan or their replacements.  You start looking like Oakland with a franchise QB, a DPOY and a lot of other problems with little cap to fix them and draft picks traded away in the bargain.And now we're at the point where the value of edge rushers should be steeply discounted; they are "roughing the passer" penalties waiting to happen.This is why I say the Packers are in a place where they need to stack a couple of good drafts, get a critical mass of good-to-impact players over a couple of years working on cheap rookie deals which provides the cap space to supplement with free agents who are more than one year rent-a-players.There was a clear window of opportunity in the 2014-2016 period, but the team couldn't close the deal.  ******** the pooch in Seattle, losing Nelson to the ACL, losing Shields, then the window started to close.  Age, injuries, FA departures have been accumulating without a lot of refreshing.</blockquote>

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