To be fair the cap situation this year and next year is a little tight to make splash moves. They’re trying to lock down Bakh, KC, Jones, etc. and all of those moves more/less preclude making a splash. I don’t know if there’s a deal out there that makes sense, but my hunch is that there are and we just can’t figure out how to make the money work.
Has the cap been mismanaged? Hard to say. There’s not a lot of dead money and the contracts they have given out aren’t unearned. We own one of the most expensive QBs in the league, which hurts harder than it does other teams, so that’s a big factor. Will Fuller and some vet DL would make a positive impact, but ultimately having the Smiths play better, OL winning battles, getting our own guys healthy, and Pettine not getting outcoached will make a bigger impact.