And do you realize the irony in knocking the Steelers for restructuring, when your QB is due $30M in a few years, requiring a restructure? Looks to me like little sister is following big brother’s act, again.

Joe Flacco IS the 47 percent.

Reading comprehension, maths, and basic morals are not high on the list of most Americans these days.

Therefore, it’s easy to see why a man is hated for gambling on himself, working his ass off, and winning in the end.

Most Americans wouldn’t know hard work from hard wood these days.

This isn’t brilliant cap management, its more, “lets take advantage of a 2 year window, and we’ll blow it up later” strategy. With structure like this ANY team can create cap space, it takes no brilliance at all.

Ozzie is a great GM, but this strategy tells us he is keeping the window open for the next 2 years, and then he’ll have to rebuild. Nothing wrong with this as a strategy, but lets not pretend its something other than what it is.

Hey, I wouldn’t object to the Pats doing something similar. They could resign Welker Talib and Volmer to back similarly back end loaded deals and get all 3 done for less than $12MM on this year’s cap, and still have another $12MM for other FA’s. Its a great strategy if your are looking at a 2-3 year window before you wind up with a cap situation that looks like the Jets.

5 meetings later, we agreed on a number yesterday. Upon signing, I looked him in the eye and said, “it was never really about the money.” I was promptly fired for violating the honesty clause.

Paying a guy $50 mil over 2 years and only counting $21 mil of that will do that to ‘ya. It’s not what I call smart cap management. It seems straight out of the “max out the credit cards and then get another” school of financial management.

Oh, it might not hurt you today, or even tomorrow. But eventually, it will hurt.

Would not be surprised if they make Reed an offer but allow him to test the market if he feels that it is too low, similar to what happened with Ray Lewis before he signed his last contract.

About the 2013 unrestricted class, it would be a shame to lose anyone, but Ellerbe would be the worst. Reed I expect will come back after not getting what he wants in FA. The others have some depth to groom.

More than they objectively deserve….like Joe Flacco maybe? This is why that deal will kill them. Sure, its a decent cap number next year, but the guys they want to sign want long term deals, like Flacco, for the money they deserve, like Flacco. But because you need $30 million in cap space in two years for the 10th best QB in the league, you’re going to need a lot of rookies to step up on these cheap deals because you won’t be able to afford the best players long term.