Vic, I just read a quote from Mark Murphy that read “the organization is not going to overspend for players. It often adversely affects a team’s salary cap, occasionally leads to discord in the locker room and many times doesn’t deliver what you paid for.” I think we all want to fill a glaring need with a perceived proven player, but I hadn’t thought about how that could wreak havoc in the locker room. Do you have any experiences where an expensive free agent poisoned the locker room? What happened to the team afterward?
It’s not that a player poisoned the locker room; it’s that his salary did.