No, no they do not. Teams like tampa and Cincy are not even close to the cap. Tampa I beliveis some 25 mill under. The Skins are famous for trading away thier picks for vets and over paying the biggests names on the market by a wide margin. The Raiders have made a name for vastly overpaying thier mediocre free agents including preimum positions like thier punter. The fucking Punter?!?!? So those "lame" jokes are not all that off the mark if you know the facts behind them.
Yes, but these teams find a way to waste their money on incompetent players. Therefore, if they spent more money they would have more incompetency (is that a word?) and would not improve.
The Raides spent $70 million dollars more than the Chiefs last year. http://www.theredzone.org/2008/salaries/TeamRankings.asp The Jets are in the middle of the pack, maybe slightly above average.
Have you seen their punter, that dude is rediculous. Besides with the amount the raiders punt I'd say hes earning every dollar.
He is very good, but also paid way above the punter average. It helps that he rarely has to kick inot a short feild because of the beolw average offense he kicks after, but he does have one hell of a leg.
The best thing that could happen to the Jets and to us as fans would be for them to win it all and basically be prevented from signing anybody but their own free agents in the uncapped year. The talent bubble on the team is going to collapse in a huge way if we keep signing aging free agents to supplement the homegrown talent we drafted in 2006 and 2007. You can't keep adding 28 to 32 year old players to the mix every year and shorting your draft and expect to be anything more than the Washington Redskins after a few years of doing that. The Redskins by the way lead the NFL in only one thing after a decade of trying the plan we've been following for the last 3 years: fewest wins per dollar spent on talent.
