Bashing the Coles-Moss Deal

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by Daseal

The 9M dollar cap hit is the killer. Smoot got a 10.8SB from MN. Not exactly a large figure over what we initially offered.

You consistently miss the point that the front office was not going to increase their offer to Smoot or Pierce.. The cap room is available to match Smoot's SB (they are sitting at about $2 mil according to the Post the other day AFTER the trade) they chose not to use it.. If they had 11M I doubt they would have matched Minnesota's offer, they just didn't want to pay that much for him..

The 9M cap hit sucks no doubt, but if he was treated like Terry Glenn as reported then everyone would be up in arms saying 'We should have taken the hit and gotten rid of him!!!!'. At least we got something for him.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

You consistently miss the point that the front office was not going to increase their offer to Smoot or Pierce.. The cap room is available to match Smoot's SB (they are sitting at about $2 mil according to the Post the other day AFTER the trade) they chose not to use it.. If they had 11M I doubt they would have matched Minnesota's offer, they just didn't want to pay that much for him..

The 9M cap hit sucks no doubt, but if he was treated like Terry Glenn as reported then everyone would be up in arms saying 'We should have taken the hit and gotten rid of him!!!!'. At least we got something for him.

People also miss the point it's not the bonus that swayed Smoot, it was the way the deal was structured that pays him more over the first 3 years of the deal, alot more than we were willing to pay.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

People also miss the point it's not the bonus that swayed Smoot, it was the way the deal was structured that pays him more over the first 3 years of the deal, alot more than we were willing to pay.

Exactly. The Skins have mastered this the past few years. It is how we got Coles from the Jets. The deal was big no doubt but it was also affordable cap wise for the Jets if structured the right way. The Skins went ahead and made it an impossible deal for them to match cap wise and the rest is history. Bad history now....