salary cap hell!

St. Geezy said
No one said your strategy is to hit on ALL of your picks. That’s a straw man if I ever saw one.

There is a difference between being good at drafting versus whiffing consistently. Up until McCoy’s substitution, we were the only team in the NFL that had not drafting a single Pro Bowl performer since 2018. That’s awful.

No one is saying you have to hit on all picks, but hitting on more than a small handful would certainly be nice.

You say the strategy only works if the other two things work, but OF COURSE that’s the case. Yes, for any economic strategy to work, you can’t whiff on who you’re acquiring. We are saying the same thing, only from your perspective you blame the cap for it for your argument’s sake.

Settle down. I think you like to throw "straw man" out there because you think it makes you look smart. It doesn't. And we are not saying the same thing at all. The draft and cap management are unrelated. There is no cap strategy that will allow your team to be good if you draft poorly. There is also no draft success that excuses giving declining or injured players MORE guaranteed money to dig out your own past financial mistakes.

What drafting poorly does is make your team bad because you cannot restock the shelves with young players on cheap contract. What managing the cap poorly does is it makes your team bad because it limits your ability to do anything about it regardless of how you draft and leaves you with expensive declining players.

St. Geezy said
No, it’s a personnel evaluation issue. We simply give big money to the wrong players.

Or are you really saying that the Saints and their boogeyman cap system are the only team that gets ripped off on big money deals, “because cap.”

Sure, there is an occasional contract that teams regret, but they don't have rosters full of them? Ours didn't all start out as big money contracts. They started out as reasonable contracts that got restructured into bad contracts full of back loaded guaranteed money. Most teams give guys at Cam Jordans age and position 1 year deals for reasonable money. They aren't getting $13 million in guaranteed money with a $23 million cap hit from past restructures.