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Originally Posted by BrudLee
To some extent - frankly, most teams don't have the advantage the Skins do (with the ability to pay so much in bonuses).
There's a wonderful website ( http://www.steelersalarycap.com/ ) that shows approximately where the team was from 1994 (the first year of the cap) through the present. From 1994 through 2004, they created a statistic called SALVOA, or SALary Value Over Average. The Steelers were below the league average only twice, and never by more than 5%. Does that mean he let valuable players leave the team because he couldn't afford them anymore? And if so, how does that speak to his ability to "buy the groceries"? |
Does SALVOA factor in all players or just the Samoans (see what I did there)?
Anyhow, good information there. For the record, while I could think of worse options Cowher isn't my first choice to take over. My fear, as I told you elsewhere Brud is that if we don't get Cowher this year we'll just try again next year unless we really make a full commitment to someone. Such as Gregg Williams.