Duke Tobin Salary Cap and Right Tackle

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00:00 salary cap number now, how does that impact free agency?

00:04 And I know last, like five years ago, the whole thing was

00:08 keep your own. Is that kind of where you're leaning now?

00:11 Or is it...

00:13 Well, yeah, I won't get into our strategies for roster building,

00:17 you know, but I will tell you that if there's more money,

00:21 there's more opportunity to add people. And that's just the reality of it is

00:25 about it. There's also more opportunity for the other

00:28 31 teams to add people to. So, you know, it maybe provides a little

00:34 flexibility. Hopefully, you know, if you're

00:38 talking about the same people just being paid more, it doesn't really benefit the

00:41 club. But as long as we can use those

00:44 dollars to maybe supplement what we would have otherwise done,

00:48 then I think it is a benefit to us. Is the priority keeping your own?

00:53 Again, I won't go into all of our roster building

00:57 plans as we go, but we do like our players and

01:00 there's a number of them that we'd like to have back.

01:03 Could potentially have an opening at right tackle? I know they asked you about the tight ends kind of being a

01:07 revolving door. With that position, you've had starters at

01:11 different starters every year in the last couple of years.

01:14 Are you guys hoping to be able to find more of a long-term

01:17 answer at that position? Are you comfortable with the strategy that you guys have had over the last couple of years?

01:22 Well, as the NFL has evolved, the term long-term

01:27 isn't as long as it used to be considered. But yes,

01:30 we would like to have somebody man the right tackle spot for a number of years.

01:35 Yes, we'd like it to be a young guy that

01:38 can come in and do that or a veteran that

01:41 might have the opportunity to rebuild his career or something.

01:45 But yes, we would like that to be manned on multiple fronts,

01:49 but we're concerned with having it manned well enough to

01:52 provide us a chance to win next year. You know, that's the number one thing.

01:56 And whether that's a rookie on a four-year deal or a veteran on a

02:00 one-year deal, we're open to anything there.