Trey H

People always want to glorify Loomis for his cap gymnastics, but guys like Hendrickson are a prime example of why it's a bad strategy. It leaves the team with no flexibility to make these kinds of choices when you already have 3 years of bonus money on void years for other players that may or may not still be contributing the way you want. This happens every year. The team is so tied up in getting under the cap and making those kinds of restructures while other teams are looking our players with no competition from us. It made sense when we were keeping the window open for Drew and Payton. It makes no sense now.

I'm with you. I hope we mostly just build through the draft over the next couple years and let that cap situation settle down. The only big free agent this year is Shaheed. He should be exclusive rights so we can make him play for peanuts next year. I bet we give him the extension, but I'd try to put it off a year. 2025 it's Pete Werner and Adebo. 2026 is the big one and when we get our cap space back if we don't go crazy the next two years.