Originally posted by LottOfDefense:
Debartalo paid players premium back when there was no salary cap. The Yorks are cheap and are terrile at running a football franchise. With an inept management, I don't see the correlation other than they still play in the same dilapidated stadium for the next 5 years.
What player would want to come here?
You are contrdicting yourself. Eddie didn't have a salary cap and you see no difference? You have to work with the cap or you will be losing even more players when you just start to become successful. Eddie only paid his players what they deserved and because they had no cap they could keep their players that they were developing and not watch their players go elsewhere, which at the time, to go elsewhere you had to have more than 6 years of service. Most contracts went 5 years at the most. Why do you think that Walsh had a harder time helping the team his second go round, different rules. Sure I'd like to see a big time name come here, but first you gotta build and get to the playoffs, but Baalke is correct in that many times teams overpay. You gotta look at history. Now if we were like the 94 49ers that is different-you go after NA and make a splash to push you over the hump, but until then build the youngsters up and get what you can w/o digging yourself into hole-one way or the other.
On top of that the niners were in salary cap hell because of Carmen Policy going for broke. We paid for if for years and it has rippled down thru the years. Now I am not excusing the Dr. Dork-he knew nothing of football and should gotten someone to be a GM, instead of hiring Nolan and letting him hire his own GM.
Another thing, people in NFL circles at the time thought Scott was not a bad hire cause he did come from Seattle under the eye of a Holmgren. Not backing up Scott as a choice, but if you look at Atlanta's and the Eagles GMs and their background before they got the call, they didn't have the experience background that many are clamoring for now...as another example, b-4 Walsh there was Joe Thomas an experienced GM that was lauded but only ended up making the niners worst... basically you never know what you gonna get until you bite into it like Forrest Gump's chocolate.
