You are totally correct on the salary cap ... I decided after I posted that I would dig up the official word on salary cap, and I found exactly what you said. I did not realize the last did not get approval.
And again .. Rush made his point .. all the sport “readers” here have no clue about anything, they are even bigger orons than the lamestream media.... here in SW Ohio they have given the false impression that salary cap is going away. They were to lazy to research it themselves. One should know better to listen to a journalist. (excuse me .. news/propaganda reader)
The teams that thit bottom and then bounce back to top tiers in a year or two do exactly what you say ... they trade down in the draft and bargain shop. The constant bottom cleaners go after that #1 pick year after year after year. The Bengals finally hit one in Carson Palmer (I still think he is suspect) but .. who can forget Akili Smith, Justin Smith, Peter Warrick on and on and on of high bungles pick that are pickin Burgers these days. lol
Well pretty much everybody in and around the league thinks they won’t get a deal done by the deadline so there will be an uncapped year. Some folks think the PA will try at getting no cap in the next deal, some even think they’ll succeed, I don’t know how smart the new head of the PA is (Gene was smart enough to understand the cap helped parity and parity helped ratings and ratings helped salary so the cap actually made players richer, alas Gene is dead) so I’ve got no idea.
It’s all about getting somebody smart enough to know what to do with those low numbered draft picks. That’s what turned the Pats around, they finally got somebody in charge who knew why you should parlay a top 10 pick into 3 second day picks and hire some really smart scouts and pick up a Tom Brady while nobody is looking.