Why the possibility of Edwards leaving could be a good thing for RFR

Let's take a step back to 2011.  Carl Edwards signs this huge and glamorous deal with Roush Fenway and Ford Racing, his teammates on the Sprint Cup Series have to take massive pay cuts as do crew members.

If you know anything about this sport, you know that NASCAR is driven by the almighty dollar.  Since Edwards signed that deal the organization has took a hit and lost a lot of his main core on the engineering side and other major players in crew members.  So if Edwards does leave, there is some positivity that comes with all of this.

Trevor Bayne will be coming up from the NASCAR Nationwide Series and has full-backing from Advocare for the entire season.  Bayne isn't going to cost no where near the amount that Edwards does when it comes to a salary and if Greg Biffle does sign back with the team, as is expected, that leaves a veteran leader within the team.  I have this assumption that Jack Roush might have just gotten tired of waiting on Edwards to make a deal and decided it was time to put Trevor Bayne in the Sprint Cup Series for 2015.

The money that the team gains from Edwards leaving could leave the door open to sign new engineers from outside of the organization.  Roger Penske had to go outside of the country and hire European engineers to fix some of their issues, that might be a road that RFR has to take.  With two younger drivers like Bayne and Stenhouse in the cars, it really might ease the budget a bit.

Bayne showed a lot when he went up against Kyle Busch at Dover in June.  Last weekend at New Hampshire he went from the back of the pack to finish 9th after Dylan Kwasniewski made contact with him in the early laps of the race.  Dale Jarrett made a comment that it showed a lot about Trevor Bayne to be patient and come back from it. 

However, Roush has someone in the waiting and I don't see it being very long before he is in a Sprint Cup car.  Chris Buescher has shown a lot of promise since he was signed on a development deal with the organization.  Buescher has been very competitive in most of the races he's been in, and if the team can find sponsorship I see him being a solid contender for the Nationwide title next year.  I also wouldn't be surprised if he is running a part-time schedule for the Wood Brothers next year. 

Jack Roush knows he has the talent to fill in the blank in the drivers seat.  He just has to fill in the other pieces of the paragraph that include engineering and mechanical situations.  What people are not looking at either is, Penske went through a stage last year after winning the Sprint Cup title in 2012, to struggling.  They fixed it within a years time.  I don't see Jack Roush falling further behind, he will find the right people to come on board and fix the issues, even if its without Edwards.