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All with 46 million in cap...? Cousins will take up at least 20 probably closer to 25 unless you're guaranteeing 60 million. Those 2 WRs are at least 6 per. Thats low end 32. And a LT coming off his rookie deal. We wouldn't have enough cap to fill otu a roster, let alone pay our rookies... PIPE DREAM And it doesn't address the side of the ball where we ranked 26th in DVOA - our defense. That has more holes anyway.

Yeah - Just don't know how we improve with all of these Free agents... QBs - TT and EJ gone RBs - Bush, Felton WRs - Woods, Hunter, Goodwin, Harvin, Tate... so all of them except watkins TEs - Gragg - just a guy Oline - Mills is gone D-line - Bryant and Douzable, possibly kyle LBs - z brown, lorax, Mccray, humber Secondary - White, Gilmore, and all the safeties assuming we cut graham and awilliams retires. By my count we need at least 1 QB, 4 wr's, probably a TE, a RT, probably 2 or 3 d-linemen, 2 lb's, at least 1 starting corner, and 4 safeties. How do you draft and sign people to fill all that.. and improve.

He was head scout. I know largely pro scouting... but his opinion definitely mattered. And he was wrong about Wilson.

Seriously... keep spinnin the wagon wheel.

2009 - Josh Freeman, Pat White were the next 2 taken... 2010 - Tebow/Clausen - yikes... I wanted Dez in this one 2011 - We missed out on cam - next 3 qbs were junk - thanks Chan 2012 - The guys we couldve had in the 1 weren't great - we shouldve drafted wilson. That's on DW imo 2013 - Got the guy we wanted in the worst qb class in forever, 0 top end talent just a bunch of JAGs 2014 - Still in holding pattern over EJ... don't think we even looked at bridgewater or carr 2015 - EJ full on sucks - have no picks to remedy it. 1/2 are great, everyone else is not 2016 - Rumors about us trading up for Wentz - nothing materializes... top 2 off the board 1/2 again. We take cardale, even though we probably wanted Dak there... 1 year too late for trading comp picks i suppose. I think we only really tried what... one time? in 2013? We got the guy we wanted...

Yeah - he does not look very good. They'll blame it on the line and the lack of playmakers though. Then when he still sucks in 5 years.... they'll blame it on the development. To me, he looks like Gabbert. Just does not look comfortable back there. I don't know if jerry rice is going to make him comfortable either.

Same with Miami. Who needed miracles against the jets, chargers, and rams to be where they're at. Luck - is what we need. And we are not getting it.

There isn't really a problem. You're stuck with the player. I guess thats a problem. You do still get the player though... It's not like we'd be paying it all out and eating the cap charge this year though. That'd be idiotic.

Kelly's an a-hole, and a choke artist. There. I SAID IT!

Solomon Hill got 4 years 52 million in the NBA... Thats a considerable commitment to a guy who has averaged 6 PPG over his career.

I mean - he'd have to really bottom out to get fired in 1 year though. Gotta figure the guy we hire is getting a few years unless he's a total train wreck.

Sounds great - it's like saying: Go sign Kirk Cousins! Trade for Romo! Trade for Rivers! As if they have no say in where they go...

I thought ty wrote a really nice exclusive interview story a few years ago about Watkins. Mike rodent then took out of context quotes from it to form click-bait headlines that painted Sammy in a poor light. That's today's media vs. real media in a nutshell.

I think we got the best kit's in the league - is it the helmets? What don't you like? I'm of the opinion that we need to make the playoffs - get the monkey off our back - before we begin rebuilding. Best case - Matt Patricia - We're probably not even interviewing him because we assume he won't come here, but I think this guy's going to be the one winner among Belicheck's coaching tree. Worst case - No QB plan - New coach drops tyrod, doesn't sign anyone good in FA, and we burn a 1st in a weak draft filling the hole. We come out 4-12 or 6-10 (not bad enough to pick #1 overall), and make like no progress on addressing the position long-term or short-term.

Kinda got nerfed a bit by the GM too. Norman is not the best corner in football as he claims - but he was the best corner on carolina. And he left mid off-season for nothing.

I don't think we should use the same strategy that Cleveland is using. It'd hurt the fan base a ton and would take probably 3-5 years. First off - you have to sacrifice $$$. I don't think an owner who just dropped 1.4 bil is looking at running a profitless NFL franchise. They're eating 35 mil in dead cap in 2016. They play in an empty stadium. Odds on favorite for worst merch in football. You think the owner there is making like... any money outside of what he's guaranteed from the rest of the league, and away games? Probably not. He might save some money on marketing, since there's no point of having a marketing team since everyone knows you're polishing a turd. They do have the benefit of paying their team the least to the cap even with the penalty. So its pretty obvious why they're so bad... 2nd - you're sacrificing time. They're at least another year away from competing, they don't have a qb, they're absent any playmakers on offense really (Pryor i guess but hes UFA anyway. With their cap rollover for this year they have 100 million in cap space - and will have a hard time spending anywhere near that because no one wants to play for them. They can front load a contract or two, and probably pry an RFA or two away without draft compensation. But this will again cost the owner money because of all the reasons above. Now what they have done that's great Traded busts for pennies on the dollars, or cut them. All this did was push all their cap hits into this year/next year (this year was lost anyway). They got rid of gilbert, mingo, manziel, Kruger, bowe, and whitner. They basically said - the old regime sucked and wasted money so we're starting over. They didn't try and market or sell tickets for this season. That was smart from a building an NFL team perspective, but it also builds apathy in fans. Money paid upfront is typically split over several years. If you cut or trade someone prior to the last year that bonus money is paid - then you pay the remainder up front when you cut/trade them. When a teammate "restructures" base salary to bonus money etc. to create cap space this is what he's doing. Ensuring that he get's paid money as a bonus over several years instead of needing to be on the roster to get paid via base salary.

He did last year though. 1 playoff berth in 2 years. Poor defense, poor o-line, poor running game. Honestly you may as well fire Gruden if you don't re-sign him. Because the team will be terrible.

That team almost made the playoffs with him. He threw for nearly 5000 yards. They don't have any particularly effective running backs, They also have a fairly mediocre to poor defense. They roll over a decent amount of cap - have doctson to replace garcon, and still keep crowder. I could see them adding another receiver since they're losing a few. I just don't see them walking away from him with absolutely no backup plan. Especially since you kept him and let RG3 walk.

They beat us twice - and the jets twice. That's really the difference. We couldn't stop stupid ajayi - TWICE!

I hope a couple QBs go early - so our pick has some value to trade back. We need to start adding more depth to the team, and you do that by adding more picks.

Canton? For what...?

I'm sorry but i have to disagree. The coach gets canned, and the GM wants me on the bench so he can cut me I guess. Isn't that pretty much the organization bailing on me? I should put a headset on and try and help our other QBs for a team that doesn't even want me? They keep saying "business decision" but nobody made it clear one way or the other to Tyrod. So he would be safe to assume - im getting cut. Who cares what this team does at this point.

What level do they drop down to...?

I suppose - i just have no idea how DVOA is calculated so to me it means nothing. Philly lost 7 of 8 and allowed 26+ in all the losses. I don't know how you can say that's the 4th best defense.

They were good - but it didn't get them any further than our bad defense got us.