Denver caught their rainbow

[Butter]

They better hit on later round picks for the next few years.

[Hoopsdoc]

Meanwhile the Saints are still in cap hell 2 years removed from Sean Payton. They are projected to be 57 million over the cap.

[Oldcolt]

I predict this retread will work out about as well as our retread quarterbacks have

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Meanwhile the Saints are still in cap hell 2 years removed from Sean Payton. They are projected to be 57 million over the cap.

I remember at the beginning of the year the 1070 the fans sports guys criticizing the Colts for not treating the cap like the Saints do. That the cap isn’t real and you can just go around it if you want forever.

[Dam8610]

Excellent, Payton will be exposed as a fraud and Denver's going to be bad for at least a decade.

[Chromeburn]

So two people worth all that draft capital. This reminds me of other new owners. They come in and try to fix the team by throwing money around. Sometimes it works. Like the Panthers team Polian built and almost won with. Most of the time it doesn’t though.

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

So two people worth all that draft capital. This reminds me of other new owners. They come in and try to fix the team by throwing money around. Sometimes it works. Like the Panthers team Polian built and almost won with. Most of the time it doesn’t though.

Well, they had Bill Polian. That plus money typically equals results.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I remember at the beginning of the year the 1070 the fans sports guys criticizing the Colts for not treating the cap like the Saints do. That the cap isn’t real and you can just go around it if you want forever.

I don’t want them to go as extreme as the Saints, but Ballard’s straight line method puts the team at a competitive disadvantage to a degree every year. The thought of course being they’ll never have the big down years either. I think it’s BS and a way to be mediocre for a longer period of time.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by rm1369

I don’t want them to go as extreme as the Saints, but Ballard’s straight line method puts the team at a competitive disadvantage to a degree every year. The thought of course being they’ll never have the big down years either. I think it’s BS and a way to be mediocre for a longer period of time.

Or set the record for wins in a decade.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

Or set the record for wins in a decade.

And consistently come up short.

If you think what the Colts did with Manning was a success, then we simply want different things and measure success differently. Manning was short changed in his time here. A more aggressive GM would have won multiple SBs with him.

You are probably a Ted Thompson fan as well.