- Messages
- 6,965
- Reaction score
- 5,765
We have all the conspiracy theories out there on the table. But let's look at a few facts, surrounding recent moves made by Thompson, in regards to players.
For openers, what happened with the cap, with the cuts they made? With Masthay and Sitton out of the picture for this year, there's $7.3 million more cap room. Based on what we already had, we now have $16.7 million total for extensions, or additional salaries next year.
With all the contracts coming due, this is an enormous amount of money added to the pot, to keep guys in-house, that we probably would have lost anyhow. It also creates interesting scenarios for today as well.
Let's take Tretter as an example. Chances are, he's going to get over $5 mill a year guaranteed, by several teams, over the course of a 4 year contract. The Packers can handle that, without batting an eye. They can rewrite this year's contract, and add three more to the mix, and not even damage the cap. They can do the same thing with Bakhtiari, and one or two more people, simply because they have the wriggle room to do it.
The more I think about what's happened, the more I see of what Thompson did when he first came on board. I believe sabermetrics came into play on this issue as much as anything else. The ROI on Sitton and Masthay wasn't good enough to keep them.
Just another theory as to how we got where we are today.
For openers, what happened with the cap, with the cuts they made? With Masthay and Sitton out of the picture for this year, there's $7.3 million more cap room. Based on what we already had, we now have $16.7 million total for extensions, or additional salaries next year.
With all the contracts coming due, this is an enormous amount of money added to the pot, to keep guys in-house, that we probably would have lost anyhow. It also creates interesting scenarios for today as well.
Let's take Tretter as an example. Chances are, he's going to get over $5 mill a year guaranteed, by several teams, over the course of a 4 year contract. The Packers can handle that, without batting an eye. They can rewrite this year's contract, and add three more to the mix, and not even damage the cap. They can do the same thing with Bakhtiari, and one or two more people, simply because they have the wriggle room to do it.
The more I think about what's happened, the more I see of what Thompson did when he first came on board. I believe sabermetrics came into play on this issue as much as anything else. The ROI on Sitton and Masthay wasn't good enough to keep them.
Just another theory as to how we got where we are today.
