Denver Broncos general manager George Paton discusses the $30-million salary cap increase and how it affects the offseason plans.
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 Yeah, I mean it impacts us. It just provides more flexibility than we thought we had.
00:05 You know, we felt like we were going to be able to do what we needed to do, and then we got the spike,
00:09 and now maybe we can do more or plan more for the future.
00:13 So it just provides us and really all the teams more flexibility moving forward.
00:17 [inaudible]
00:19 We're going to be very--like we said, we're going to be strategic.
00:21 We're not going to be as aggressive as last year.
00:23 We have flexibility, but we're going to just be more measured and try to fill specific positions,
00:30 specific needs throughout the team, but feel like we'll have the flexibility to do that.
00:36 But we're not going to be like--we can't do that every year and be aggressive like we were last year.
00:41 [inaudible]
00:43 I think you'd have to love--really have to love someone.
00:45 I mean, to move up to the 1, I don't know if we have the draft capital to do that.
00:49 Yeah, I mean, everything's up.
00:51 We're open for anything, but that would be hard to move up to number 1 realistically.
00:55 [inaudible]
00:56 Yeah, it's easier to trade down with where we're at at number 12, and it just depends on who's there.
01:02 We feel like there's 12 to 15 players that are really--we have high grades on,
01:06 and so we think where we're picking is going to be very valuable if we do want to move down.
01:11 [inaudible]
01:13 Yeah, I mean, it's the most important position in sports, so it's important.
01:16 Whether it's from within, that's why this has taken a long time.
01:20 It's not just going to happen overnight.
01:22 Our decision is very important, but if you're going to draft one, that's obviously very difficult.
01:27 And so we're going to put a lot of time into it.
01:30 We do every position, but the quarterback position is just that much--
01:33 there's more mistakes, it seems like, at quarterback, especially in the first round.