So the Eagles had to avoid the usual vexing element of other free-agency sprees: exceeding the salary cap, forcing teams to figure out how to make it work later.
Folks go nuts for that kind of mature expression (and it works later in life in jobs and relationships, too).
With two boys, aged six and eight, I try to get home in time to see them before they go to bed, even if it means working later when they are asleep.
"Early on against the Rams we tried to reroute their receivers and throw the whole timing off on the offense and it worked -- later in the game, those guys were looking for us," said Redskins linebacker Shawn Barber, as athletic and physical as any linebacker in the league.
"Here was this little band from Alabama standing on the corner saying, 'Hey, put us on the cover', and it worked," he later said, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
In advertising, working later – be it attending awards, networking or creative brainstorming – is the norm.
There is a hot, airless wait at the border crossing to the Czech Republic since the air conditioning on the coach has broken, deciding to work later when it's freezing cold.
It worked: 30 minutes later, half asleep, I hauled myself back and finally fell asleep.
It worked, and he later observed that it made the entire team more effective.
And they may well be right: if tax-cut blackmail works now, why shouldn't it work again later?
