No, no. Much better to pay Romo $16 m and Spencer $10 m and then lose at least 1 of them next year and then have to overpay the other with a franchise tag to stay. That's the much better plan.
Yeah, because we absolutely HAD to franchise Spencer this year.
We did that, then pushed guaranteed money into future years just to get under the cap. In a year when the free agent market was as tight as it's ever been no less.