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Comp picks are cool when your roster is set in a way that you can afford to lose players and not replace them. But when you have holes on your team that you need to fill, you fill them with competent people. You don't go into a season with holes on your team so that you can get some mid round picks the following year.

Laughing at the inevitable posts coming in from people who had unreal expectations, think the salary cap "means nothing", and that believe just because there's restructures and extensions that COULD be done to clear space that it was an automatic that every single one WOULD be done and at the snap of a finger.

No Evan Engram for us either. Tight End market is getting stupid.

He was my #1 hope for backup here. But it makes sense for him. Like you said, Tua's proven he's made of glass - so you've got a good shot to at least play some games.

The Panthers have been the most connected team to the Watson situation. Gotta imagine Texans know what their offer is and it's probably more than those.

Yes

Have to take 13 million in Dead Cap to do it: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/christian-mccaffrey-21749/ And this thought that you can always re-do players is getting out of hand. You can't just snap your fingers and re-do deals. The other party has to be okay with it.

And it goes up to 12 every year after that for 2023, 2024, and 2025. Dead cap hit of 13 million if you want to move on from him after this season. 8 million in Dead Cap if you want to move on from him the season after that. Not a false narrative. You bring him on, you're paying a lot more than just 8. Right now, we're using 4 million of our cap on the RB position between Singletary and Moss. Even 8 this year is double. Triple every year after that and that comes out of other positions. Not to mention, we have to give up premium picks to do it, which again, are needed at other positions that have bigger holes than RB.

We. are. NOT. trading. for. Christian McCaffrey. There is no way he's giving up picks AND big money for a RB when he's never done either and it's in his makeup to not to do either. Not for a guy who has proven time and again he can't stay healthy. Not after Singletary ended the year looking the best he ever has being a primary ball carrier. Especially not when Cap Space is at a premium and there's so many other positions we have to fill that are more important.

I sort of agree. If we were to add an Evan Engram, I think I'd mostly be okay with it. But I'd want a solid veteran added or a 1st Round WR or a high 2nd Rounder from a trade up. I don't like the idea of promoting both Davis and McKenzie and not doing much else. Wouldn't be an upgrade from where we were last season and could potentially be a downgrade if either underperforms in a bigger role.

Hodgins is a Practice Squad guy. I'm not counting on him making the 53. He was a hot name last offseason, failed to show anything, and was released. I don't get why posters are so attached to him. I know, right? I said the exact same thing. "Not a lot of balls to go around"? It's the same players we had minus (most likely) two key contributors.

Are posters okay with this scenario? Diggs Davis (Day 2 Pick) McKenzie Stevenson Kumerow Knox (FA Signing to upgrade from Sweeney)

Great. Rob Gronkowski and Evan Engram's price tag just went up.

Cole wasn't returning BEFORE this move. After it, there's no way. He was either going to have to take a serious paycut or he'd be released. The fact that he was granted permission to seek a trade says he wasn't interested in the first option. And there's no way we're keeping him for the role he has on this team with declining stats and his release being able to save us 6.1 million dollars on a team that has far greater needs.

Wow. I'm honestly shocked. I figured he'd want to test the market at the very least. Guess the scuttlebutt of him not being happy here and McDermott not being a fan were bs.

😂 Hilarious. ... wait, this IS a joke right?

Something I keep hearing is "the time to win the Super Bowl is now" as reasoning that we'll be players in FA. But the same was said last season (maybe even louder) and we weren't. And we're in the exact same spot we were last season as far as the cap, with maybe even less simple ways of freeing space. And yet expectations are even HIGHER than they were at this time last year. I hope I'm wrong, but I definitely see a lot of "is Beane asleep?" and "what is Beane doing?!" posts coming over the next few days.

You're correct, I was confusing this with the pre-legal tampering days of FA when deals were struck at Midnight.

26.3 cap hit for Frank Clark? Hard pass.

Yes, but as I said, he's not the type of GM who's going to spend cap space that he's expecting to have freed up through an extension or restructure until it's officially been signed or agreed upon.

It does if he wants to be a player in most of these big name signings that people are hoping for. That first wave goes quick and starts in 8 hours.

We're now under 10 hours until the "Free Agency Frenzy" begins and Beane still hasn't freed up anything beyond getting us 1 million under the cap. Unless he makes some major moves today, I don't see us doing anything of substance in that first wave of "big splash moves". He's not the type of GM to go over the cap and count on cap saving moves until they happen. Watching "The Free Agency Frenzy" about an hour ago on NFL Network, they talked about the Bills and said they're smartly run and have used their cap to build a solid core and that they expect them to secure value FA's later on and finish the roster off in the Draft.

The end of the season and the playoffs said that person is Devin Singletary. They've always had an undying faith and loyalty to him and in keeping him on the field as much as possible instead of utilizing him in a two man system, he rewarded that faith during that time. I expect much of the same this coming season. Singletary will be the primary ball carrier. I don't see them bringing in a guy that's going to keep him on the bench or split carries with coming off him looking the best he ever has. Just a guy that will spell him when he needs a breather. And like I said, all that aside, it flies in the face of Beane's modus operandi in the first place. He doesn't spend high picks or spend big money on that position. Especially not when I think they're just looking for someone to be Singletary's spell guy. And in the case of Barkley and McCaffrey, you're asking him to do BOTH at the same time. I just can't see it. Especially this year when we have a lot of holes to fill, cap space is tight, and we're picking at the end of each round. And especially not after Devin looked as good as ever. At most, and I'd even be surprised if they did this, they'd sign one of the top RB's in FA like Leonard Fournette, James Conner, Chase Edmonds, or Melvin Gordon. Or they'd spend a 2nd on a Breece Hall or Kenneth Walker. Not give up a big pick AND spend big cap space, especially on guys who have serious wear and tear on their tires. It's just not happening.

I think the kind of posters who are hoping for a trade for Saquon Barkley, signing for Chandler Jones, Rob Gronkowski, Bobby Wagner, re-signing Harrison Phillips AND trading Tremaine Edmunds for a 2nd Round Pick DEFINITELY are. But I don't think *a* big time signing, especially something like Gronk, on an incentive laden deal, is out of the question. I think it all depends on what your personal expectations are.

They aren't getting both. They already have Bradley Chubb on the roster. So you're not paying a Von Miller or a Chandler Jones what it would cost to be a rotational piece. And they're going to have to pay Chubb by next offseason as he's on his 5th year option this season.