Originally Posted by
N.O.Bronco
This isn't 2014, The East and the West haven't been this closely matched in some time. GS is still the clear winner, followed by Houston, but outside of that the conferences are pretty evenly split these days. With the slight lean going to the West due to those higher end teams.
Philly currently sits with 2 superstars that they can realistically expect to keep locked up for nearly a decade, a great young supporting cast on great salaries, a 28-25 record in their first real season of effort, and will be going into the offseason with over 30 million in cap space. There are few better positioned teams exiting their rebuilds, and despite entering their rebuild on a time table behind ours, they are exiting theirs at the same time, currently, with similar output. And they have the Hinkie model to thank for that. The Hinkie model, unlike ours, also made the cost/benefit formula work much better for Philly.
Its strange to hear people still try to defend the Demps model and execution of that model in 2018. As we are talking about scrapping the leftovers of the buyout market because we are financially tapped out to the point that we have no room for error with our depth, ever. That our full strength was still a situation with glaring holes with no real path to fixing all of them without going deep into the luxury tax.