{2023 Thread Bumped} Underhill Giving No Quarter to Nick Wright

Belfast Saint said

It's a great strategy to maximise a team with as much money as you can. However, there is increased risk and less flexibility. Simple scenario is that bad personnel decisions/ drafting means that we need to shift away from a number of players. Making more significant changes to the roster would be made more difficult operating with just enough cap flexibility to get by and, generally, limited draft capital based on our approach to drafting. It's an aggressive strategy and I like it, but a stretch of bad personnel decisions will be hard(er) to recover from because of it.

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I am definitely a proponent of the way the Saints maximize their cap, but you’re right…the biggest downside is that your margin for error is very low. You are essentially locked into deals with the players you sign.

I think this is why we generally shop the bargain bin in free agency. You don’t want to lock yourself into the wrong guy. The only ones we seem to lock ourselves into big money deals with are players we have already seen play at a high level FOR US, rather than with someone else.

We did choose to swing for the fences with Carr, but I do believe he is a special case since we had a desperate need at the game’s most important position, and we can get out of the deal with minimal damage after a couple of years if he busts.