Would Dunta Robinson & Darren Sproles be 'business as usual'?

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I'm all for "business as usual" as far as overpaying for good players in an uncapped year. Give them the max contract number (I think you can only give a player a 20% raise on what they made last year in an uncapped year) for this year and scale it down in the following years of the contract (someone had a decent pay scale for D. Robinson). Players flock to us because we overpay so lets upgrade where we can and focus our attention to filling the gaps in the draft.

Signing a guy like D. Robinson is a great move because it gives us the flexibility to trade Rogers for a pick or keep him. Having Robinson, Rogers and Hall isn't anything to sneeze at.

Sproles...eh. I'm betting Aldridge sticks around and plays that role. Didn't Shannahan highly recommend Aldridge to the coaching staff last year?

I'd rather go after guys like A. Rolle, Dansby, Robinson. All three of those positions are need positions (not the biggest needs i know but they are needs especially if we can squeeze a pick for Rogers after the fact). Maybe we'll get lucky and sign a quality lineman or two.

We can cut players that are dead weight and Danny will bite the bullet and then bite it again when it's time to cut checks for FA. This is the one good thing about him as an owner in my opinion. How many cheap owners are there around the league that won't pony up to make their team competitive. Snyder and Steinbrenner are cut from the same mold...they're not afraid to pay for talent because they want to win. So let our FOOTBALL PEOPLE make some decisions and let danny pay. If we sign 3-4 "big-time" players at big contracts this year and cut the dead weight, we'll end up paying a lot THIS YEAR, but the ARE and Randy Thomas's will be off the books once the cap is reinstated and we'll have a fresh slate with relatively young talent.