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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 604417">Guys get injured, guys retire, guys don't like Ted's offer, guys don't take the vaunted second year jump.  As for the latter point, there are not many bottom of the bench youngsters who have impressed enough where you say, "they're stuck behind an established starter."As you saw with the Williams and House deals, increasing cap levels just get sucked up in wage inflation for starter-level players.  House's case should be instructive...that's a lot of money for a guy who had yet to establish himself as a starter.As I say regularly, "panic" is not a word to be applied to a spectator sport unless you have large monetary wager on an outcome.What makes the 2017 scenario concerning is 1) the shear volume of starters and second line backups involved, 2) Thompson's hesitance to match the market, 3) a less than impressive back bench and 4) complete disinterest in mid-tier FA starters to back and fill.The process is losing momentum.  Maybe I should change that signature line to "two drafts".</blockquote>

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