There are ways around the salary cap. McKay knew this. The problem in 2003 was the players Gruden and Allen brought in. They had no problem bringing in players and working around the cap. They just sucked with almost very single personnel decision they made.
A concept many have difficulty grasping.
Only because it is just that a concept with lose ends that need to be included that many ignore because it has many intangibles to explain that can't be unless your in the driver seat...(The Glazers)....Sorry but I don't buy that you or others are in the complete know of how it all got ruined unless you were in their office. Jon Gruden knew he had minimum time to get the job done with all the drafts traded away. Then when times got tough to work through all the giveaways people bolted....I get tire of all the missing pieces of the puzzle and people keep trying to say they have all the pieces to the failures after Rich Mckay left. Hopefully we quit saying Jon Gruden and just move on. I believe even 75 to 85 percent of the Nation knew we should have kept JG but the Glazers thought better. Who knows what the Real truth will ever be....I have moved on...OBD
There are ways around the salary cap. McKay knew this. The problem in 2003 was the players Gruden and Allen brought in. They had no problem bringing in players and working around the cap.
The cap limited some of the players they could bring in. Many of the players brought in in 2003 were due to their familiarity with Gruden and vice versa. Now every move they made didn't work out obviously, but they still managed to have winning seasons in 3 out of their last 4 years.As for McKay, his power was bypassed because he defied the Glazers and went out and wanted to hire another defensive minded guy when they wanted an offensive minded HC. The opportunity for Gruden came about and they jumped. Mortgaging the future, but winning a Super Bowl.
You guys are referencing the wrong year. The year Allen and Gruden brought in guys such as Charlie Garner was 2004. 2003 they still had the vast majority of 2002's team back and had a lot of things go south on them.
