Tua threw a lot of downfield passes in college, and so many fans expected him to do that in the NFL. Now, everyone thinks he has a weak arm, any sign of that will get a huge amount of scrutiny. That is the NFL for you.
As far as the cap goes, you can put off the cap implications for a while, but all the tricks teams use delay the problem, you can't avoid it forever. Teams like NO and Dallas this year had to ditch players they wanted to have, because you can only do it so long. Some teams are willing to do it, but others are not.
The Chargers have not mortgaged the future to field a good team now, at least not historically. Should we have????
Even now, next year is kind of a mixed bag. Looking at over the cap, we are $8 mill over the cap next year in the effective sense. We can get back to breaking even, but we still need some cap space for rookies (our rookie pool this season is $8.8 mill, and that is pretty low, since we traded out #2 pick this season), so being $8 million over in the effective sense is really more like $16-20 million over, depending on where we draft.
And with the way QB salaries are going up, we might want to sign JH sooner rather than later. QB are a good place to look for restructuring opportunities. They are high risk (ask Washington about the Alex Smith deal) to a point, but most QB are not going to do too much stupid stuff off field, so if you want to keep kicking the can down the road with your QB< there is less risk at that position than with a lot of other positions.
As far as the cap goes, you can put off the cap implications for a while, but all the tricks teams use delay the problem, you can't avoid it forever. Teams like NO and Dallas this year had to ditch players they wanted to have, because you can only do it so long. Some teams are willing to do it, but others are not.
The Chargers have not mortgaged the future to field a good team now, at least not historically. Should we have????
Even now, next year is kind of a mixed bag. Looking at over the cap, we are $8 mill over the cap next year in the effective sense. We can get back to breaking even, but we still need some cap space for rookies (our rookie pool this season is $8.8 mill, and that is pretty low, since we traded out #2 pick this season), so being $8 million over in the effective sense is really more like $16-20 million over, depending on where we draft.
And with the way QB salaries are going up, we might want to sign JH sooner rather than later. QB are a good place to look for restructuring opportunities. They are high risk (ask Washington about the Alex Smith deal) to a point, but most QB are not going to do too much stupid stuff off field, so if you want to keep kicking the can down the road with your QB< there is less risk at that position than with a lot of other positions.
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