And at least one wealthy player is already considering restructuring his contract to make it feasible for the Jets to acquire defensive talent next season.

The question remains one of acquiring or developing elite talent, and soon.

But the expansion draft will be their first chance to acquire top talent.

Plus, they sat on the sidelines during the first year of free agency (without the salary cap), while other teams acquired talent around them.

That may be true, and it's unfortunate that the Yankees didn't focus more on acquiring talent in the off-season.

In rebuilding the roster for next season, Smith said he would seriously consider several avenues to acquire new talent.

"We are acquiring excellent talent and in this kind of lending there is intense competition for branch managers."

Between then and his marriage, he acquired enormous talent, but had no family life, no purpose, no discipline.

The other big music companies have tended to acquire talent, rather than cultivating it internally.

Yet average salary does not fully describe the rising cost of acquiring talent.