This is one of the crazier times of the year in the NFL. Media and fans posit all manners of outlandish signings, trades and draft maneuvers without any regard to salary cap, combines or workouts. Everything is done with rose colored glasses and must be taken with an enormous grain of salt. Even with all of that in mind, Woody Paige's plans for the Denver Broncos still boggle the mind. Given him credit for specificity. He doesn't say the Broncos need this type of player or that type. No, Woody is as specific as can be. He says Denver should trade down in the first round and up in the second round and gives you the exact players that the team should be drafting in each of the first four rounds. It's not even worth discussing the players, except to say that opining about the draft position of players at this point is incredibly silly.
That's just the draft. In free agency, the Broncos are to improve the offense by signing Max Starks to replace Matt Lepsis and Justin Gage or Bryant Johnson to play receiver. They'll mix with the returning Travis Henry and Javon Walker, neither of whom would take a pay cut. And on defense, they'll sign Boss Bailey and Corey Williams.
Oh yeah, they'll sign Lance Briggs too.
It's not the easiest thing in the world to figure out just how much cap room teams will have until they sort out their own rosters. That said, the general rise in the cap means that a lot of teams will have money to throw around come February 29, which means that players will likely get contracts that are inflated beyond their "actual" worth. To sign all of these players stretches credulity beyond belief.
Not that I expect Paige thought much about the salary cap when he was painting this picture. He's just picking out names so that he can slam the Broncos down the road when they are forced to make decisions rooted in reality.




