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Originally Posted by firstdown
So what your saying is to remove the cap so Snyder can buy better players. The talent is still there its just that a few of the bigger teams cannot just go out and get every player they want. Now the talent is spread over more of the teams.
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Touche, it's hard to be anti-salary cap when Dan Snyder is anywhere around, the cap is almost entirely focused on his style of ownership.
I don't really know enough about the salary cap to have a qualified opinion, but I would find it interesting if they would give you a break (or a bigger break if there already is one) if you were re-signing your own players versus signing free agents. Maybe even raise it a little. It would help keep teams together, add importance to good drafting, and as a side effect maybe strengthen rivalries that have been weakened via players switching to the other side for cash (I'm still a little angry about signing Deion Sanders, I mean wtf).
But it may not just be salary cap based, the new teams in the league may also have contributed to the "watering down" of the NFL. 32 teams full of starters versus 28 is a big difference in talent per team.
A third concept is that it may just be a random weak year like when the Ravens won. No disrespect to their win because their defense was legendary, but the league was poor that year.