You look at the salary cap spreadsheets that you're handed, yeah, you know the inevitable is going to happen. When you're $20 million to $30 million over, whatever it is, you've got to get under the cap.

As you say, the salary cap is a problem. If we wanted to get Corey Simon, we couldn't have made that happen, maybe because of the salary cap. It's not like we weren't looking at every good player that we foresee being available. But we have to be honest and realistic with what we can get done given our salary cap.

He's a very fast, and a much more physical, complete linebacker now than when he was a starter a couple of years ago.

Absolutely, but in today's game, where are we going to go with the (salary) cap? I am (upset) at what is happening there because I thought our team played very well tonight. And this has gone on for quite a while. Is there other options out there? We can't do (anything).

This first year [under the league's salary cap economic system] we're going to see what we have,

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.