Redskins, Cowboys could go “nuclear” over cap mess

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by mbedner3420

It'd be awesome if we get some high round draft picks as compensation.

i suggested this before myself... but i dont think its a realistic option. it would be entirely unprecedented. however, i feel it could be warranted. the big names in free agency are all gone. we could easily argue that we would have gone after mario williams, peyton manning, vincent jackson, winston, etc. but were unable to do so because of wrongful cap penalty. it also could have prevented our ability to retain landry (not like we really wanted to). at this point, we cant replace the players we could have signed, so all they could do would be give us draft picks, and we could only get players like that in the 1st round. of course, theres no evidence any of those players would have signed with us, so thats highly unlikely.

In the end, i think a fair resolution would be to waive the 18MM hit next year and give us some sort of cap credit (maybe not the full 18MM from this year, but something), along with possible compensatory picks in the 3rd round and beyond in 2013. given these are given to teams who lose free agents, this is somewhat of a comparable situation, as we lost our ability to get free agents due to wrongful penalties.