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[Spike]

Hell, maybe Irsay is broke.

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2021/3/...-cap-situation

[rcubed]

Originally Posted by Spike

Hell, maybe Irsay is broke.

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2021/3/...-cap-situation

its a narrative thats going around as to why we are not signing anyone.

[Oldcolt]

People are acting like this is the first off season we have gone thru with Ballard. This is how he operates. We may love it or hate it but it is how it is. I personally love it. The only real worry I have is pass rush and I can’t remember when I didn’t worry about it. Ballard has put a lot of resources into the rush thru the draft and has nothing really to show for it Hopefully on of those picks will have a light come on I don’t think you can solve your rush thru free agency. Losing Autry was expected We bought low and he left with a nice contract. I’m willing to bet we end up getting his best years It’s way early. Relax freaks

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

People are acting like this is the first off season we have gone thru with Ballard. This is how he operates. We may love it or hate it but it is how it is. I personally love it. The only real worry I have is pass rush and I can’t remember when I didn’t worry about it. Ballard has put a lot of resources into the rush thru the draft and has nothing really to show for it Hopefully on of those picks will have a light come on I don’t think you can solve your rush thru free agency. Losing Autry was expected We bought low and he left with a nice contract. I’m willing to bet we end up getting his best years It’s way early. Relax freaks

The difference this year is we're seeing good players that would have filled some very big needs of ours going to other teams for very reasonable short term deals or on cheap 1 year contracts, and also losing our own for the same.

- Lawson would have been an upgrade at arguably our biggest need. Yes, he signed a bigger contract, but he didn't get ridiculous money and his contract is only guaranteed through '22. So if it doesn't work out then it's easy to cut bait on him after next season.

- John Brown signed for cheap and would have filled a big need of ours. Even if we end up re-signing TY to a team friendly deal it still would have been a great move to bring Brown in for that cheap.

- We expected Autry to walk and get paid, but his new contract really wasn't much more than what we were paying him. His average is only $1.2M more per season and GTD is only $2.5M over 3 years. Seems like we could have figured something out there.

- While losing Walker isn't a huge blow, it's still a blow. Hopefully we can spend a mid round pick to backfill him, but at 1 year $3.5M it seems like we could have kept him and punting on backfilling him to next offseason.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Spike

Hell, maybe Irsay is broke.

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2021/3/...-cap-situation

No, stop it.

Do you think Jim has a giant vault and he swims through his coins and cash like Scrooge McDuck and just spend money right and left at any moment at any time?

It’s cash flow. They took on an existing contract, and they have to account how they gonna pay for it. By the way the owners are a little cash poor since nobody went to the football games last year.

Jim Irsay his money is tied up in wealth, and that’s probably invested in all sorts of different mechanisms other than cash. In a recent Star srticle, he is quoted as ready to spend, but he has allowed the GM to do his job

[Spike]

Originally Posted by JAFF

No, stop it.

Do you think Jim has a giant vault and he swims through his coins and cash like Scrooge McDuck and just spend money right and left at any moment at any time?

It’s cash flow. They took on an existing contract, and they have to account how they gonna pay for it. By the way the owners are a little cash poor since nobody went to the football games last year.

Jim Irsay his money is tied up in wealth, and that’s probably invested in all sorts of different mechanisms other than cash. In a recent Star srticle, he is quoted as ready to spend, but he has allowed the GM to do his job

Most owners are not a little cash poor, that's just fucking stupid to say. We need a pass rusher and a LT. Top 5 in cap space and we haven't signed anyone to address that. I haven't said go out and blow your wad Irsay/Ballard, but damn when you have a 25 year old stud available like Lawson, go get him. He's not going to break the bank for God's sake. Sign him and then concentrate on getting a LT. Jaff, you really need to put down the liquor before you post stupid shit like this. By the way, everyone pays big money for their QB, don't use that as an excuse.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Spike

Most owners are not a little cash poor, that's just fucking stupid to say. We need a pass rusher and a LT. Top 5 in cap space and we haven't signed anyone to address that. I haven't said go out and blow your wad Irsay/Ballard, but damn when you have a 25 year old stud available like Lawson, go get him. He's not going to break the bank for God's sake. Sign him and then concentrate on getting a LT. Jaff, you really need to put down the liquor before you post stupid shit like this. By the way, everyone pays big money for their QB, don't use that as an excuse.

And he is not. There’s a pandemic have you noticed? In the stock market is all over the place or have you not noticed that?

He doesn’t have a big safe in his office full of cash, and if you think anyone does that’s just dumb.

They are altering his pre-existing contract so it makes more sense for the team he’s on now. And that means That you’re gonna need to move money from here to there and that it may be more than what you had in your safe.

The cap Is somewhere around $280 million. Do you think he has that sitting around in tens and 20s? Don’t be a simpleton

[smitty46953]

I am personally not worried about Irsay's cash position, until his guitar collection hits E-Bay ...

[njcoltfan]

Originally Posted by JAFF

And he is not. There’s a pandemic have you noticed? In the stock market is all over the place or have you not noticed that?

He doesn’t have a big safe in his office full of cash, and if you think anyone does that’s just dumb.

They are altering his pre-existing contract so it makes more sense for the team he’s on now. And that means That you’re gonna need to move money from here to there and that it may be more than what you had in your safe.

The cap Is somewhere around $280 million. Do you think he has that sitting around in tens and 20s? Don’t be a simpleton

Since 2017 the stock market has almost doubled, so don't use that as an excuse, and the cap is the money that the owners receive from the TV deals, its not coming out of Irsays pocket.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by njcoltfan

Since 2017 the stock market has almost doubled, so don't use that as an excuse, and the cap is the money that the owners receive from the TV deals, its not coming out of Irsays pocket.

No shit? Seen it recently? And he’s not day trading in the stock market that means money is invested in long-term growth. You just can’t go dipping in and out of that.

Oh and that TV deal it just got extended practically doubling. So I don’t think Jimmy has money problems.

Do you know who owns more farmland than anyone else in America? Bill Gates. Why is he doing that? He knows that there’s only so much farmland in America and God isn’t making any more. That’s long-term thinking. Oh and by the way as we keep plowing a farmland in Indiana to expand around the loop. We’re plowing up farmland. As the amount gets smaller the price goes up. And you can’t do that unless you commit a sizable mount of money and you’ll leave it there. Jim is he’s not his father, he’s a much better businessman, Has made a whole lot more money than his dad could dream of