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Frankly we were a .500 team with a disaster coach. There's no reason to think that a great hire and efficient offseason couldn't have netted a wildcard immediately. I'm pretty sure many of today's biggest supporters were banging that drum 6 months ago, before transitioning to the idea that we have to turn all 53 roster spots and it's a 3 year project suddenly

I haven't watched enough but am baffled by the "I know this sample size is insignificant but I'm sending out a definitive hot take anyway" decision

Was looking in the class recently and will echo that everyone I spoke to advised I'd be foolish to do the Audi out of the group. For the exact reasons several here echoed. My parents also own one currently that is essentially done for due to frequent and expensive repairs.

Other than spite- why?

Outside of 2-3 moves, each can be justified in a vacuum.... but put beside each other it's a tough story to tell

You act like it's happening in a normal way

Why did it shock you? Were you unaware of the moves we had made?

They keep Williams -- that part is actually reasonable if they are on the fence

It's another instance of "if we are going to lean on the run game why do we leave it dangerously thin" I'm not even a big jwill fan but if shady pulls a hammy in the second quarter this week, what are we doing?

Honestly, this was one signing that I had a hard time reconciling with not wanting to maximize this year. So the offseason makes more sense to me with this move now.

I'm really struggling to come up with ever seeing an offseason like this for any team. It's incredibly extreme how many young guys we've booted

I'd encourage you to actually look at the 2016 falcons roster before making that comparison in talent

That gilislee move really was a foreseeable issue... and it's only gotten worse

I mean, it's obviously not a great situation but I'd take pretty much anything for him. Other than being super duper offended is there a reason to turn down a 7th?

I think it's a case of if faced with getting beat up for a pay check he'd rather do civic rights but if a chance to win a ring that's a dream he'd chase. Not super nefarious or duplicitous really.

I'd agree in some cases. I do not think boldin is that case. Like I said- normally I'm all for maximizing team control in pretty much any situation like this (called out numerous places I thought we whiffed in that regard this offseason).... this one doesn't bother me- emotionally or logically. I don't think he's a very good player at this point. If he was sold on us pushing hard this year I'm not upset by him feeling duped potentially. Sooooo, it feels pretty "whatever" on this one.

You do that by winning games

I barely consider them a rival right now

I'm not banking on being in a race for the division with the pats, are you? Big deal if you let a guy that isn't going to actually be impactful chase a ring

Meh. I dont have a hard line stance in situations like this -- normally i likely say hold the rights to avoid making the competition better. In this case, I'm fine with whatever. I think hes toast and don't think we are pushing our chips on the table - so if a long term vet who was here for a week of practice decided this wasn't the fit for him, go do you dude.

Or probably wondering if totally dismantling the unit is the best approach when you have a solid young core of (cheap outside of Gilmore) man cover guys that can be hard to come by

Tate and colt Anderson are it.

Essentially every team has a couple top draft picks, so pretty much a wash when comparing talent levels right now And that leaves what is a pretty underwhelming list by NFL standards. It certainly isn't as impressive as it once felt

But that situation is by far the exception and not the rule.

From the perspective of the team trading for him, his contract only gets less appealing the longer you wait. If his workout bonus is already on the books with us the cap hit he brings to a new team is under $10m this year