When I was a kid, I used to send a letter to Nickelodeon every week hoping to win a shopping spree. Once a week, they’d go live to a Toys R Us where two pre-teens would barrel down the aisles filling their empty carts. It seemed sweet and innocent, but at another glance, two prepubescent’s fighting over plastic toys their parents can’t afford is more disturbing than anything.
This is how Al Davis shops. Instead of examining each toy carefully, he throws the ones he thinks he wants into the cart and waits until it’s time to play to see what they do.
Don’t take this the wrong way, Nnamdi Asomugha is an excellent corner and Chris Johnson played well this season. Shane Lechler has the strongest leg in the NFL. These players would find a starting job on most NFL teams.
Most NFL teams aren’t starting Kirk Morrison and Gerrard Warren.
The deal is perfect for Nnamdi. He remains in California, his home state. He plays on a bad defense, so QB’s have no reason to throw to his side. No one expects Nnamdi to carry the team to a Super Bowl. In other words, this might be the easiest $50 million a player can make.
Defenders of Al Davis will no doubt mention 2010, when the NFL likely goes uncapped for a year. Unless Mr. Davis plans on signing a lot of quality free agents to inflated one-year deals, I fail to see how 2010 justifies this move. 2011 will have a cap, and if Nnamdi’s option is picked up he will make over $16 million. That’s a lot of cap room for a team with a lot of needs.
If the quiet cutting of Gibril Wilson, the most dependable SS in Raider camp in several years, isn't a sign that the cap is something to worry about, what is?
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