re: Salary Cap Check In

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How does this fat piece of crap get paid this much?

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This is the result of renegotiating several times and rolling the money forward. Loomis is a master of juggling the numbers to stay in cap compliance. It's just a fact of NFL life that with continued success you are likely to live close to the cap limits. Moves to accommodate that I can hack. The point where criticism could be had to me is a few of the second contract money amounts. Smith, Harper, and Charles Grant were all given second contracts that I thought were more costly than what their performance and ability warranted. Those big deals were like if the Saints would have gave Bushrod $36mil for 5yrs (the Chicago contract). He was a decent tackle but definitely not worth that much. Most here felt better about him walking at that price. If the same sort of fiscal management when the Smith, Harper, & Grant deals came around was applied things would be better now. There was a lot more free or looser cap money available then. Maybe the tight cap has Loomis refining his cap skills even better.