Chuck Wagon Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I know there's multiple threads about your dream offseason, but Fanspeak has designed two tools (a FA simulator and a draft simulator) to put your ideas into action. We can argue about the accuracy of the tools, but they still are a fun way to visualize the big picture. http://fanspeak.com/toolbox/ My offseason: Cut - Chris Williams, Keith Rivers & Orton (it makes you cut him) Restructure - Mario Resigned - Hughes & Marcus Easley (Spikes and Searcy fake wanted a lot imo) This put me right about $30 mil in cap space for this offseason. I signed the following: My FA: Iupati Derek Newton Jermaine Gresham Ryan Mallet Devin McCourty (had about $10 mil burning a hole in my pocket after the first 4 signings) CJ Wilson (cheap depth DE, $1 mil for 1 year) My Draft: 2nd - Maxx Williams 3rd - Jay Ajayi 5th - Tony Lippett 5th - Ladarius Gunter (CB, Miami) 6th - Mike Hull (ILB, Penn St) 7th - Max Garcia (C, Florida) I have about $5 mil in cap left over for post June 1 cuts Fully embracing the ground & pound attack, Newton was PFF's 4th rated run blocking tackle and we all know about Iupati. Gresham and Williams gives us two strong TEs and we'll have a real strong group at that position for the first time in ever. Ajayi gives us a big workhorse back and he can fight it out with Brown to be the lead guy, with Fred playing a passing specialist role and Dixon as the short yardage back. Lippett gives us a young big WR to round out the Watkins-Woods group. Mallett was the only QB I brought in, he's still young and has a big arm, I want to fight it out between him and EJ figuring if they are both awful and QB tanks the season, we'll be drafting one high next year. Not taking one in the draft also puts us in a good spot to be attractive to several UDFA QBs. Spikes and Searcy both wanted A LOT, so I figured we'll be ok with Brown & Kiko inside and it wouldn't hurt to spend a 6th on Hull to add depth. As mentioned, I had some money leftover and splurged on McCourty to cover losing Searcy and to stick it to the Pats. QB: EJ & Mallet (plus UDFA) RB: Ajayi, Fred, Dixon, Bryce FB: Gray WR: Watkins, Woods, Lippett, Easley, Goodwin, Hogan TE: Gresham, Williams, Chandler T: Glenn, Newton, Henderson, Kouandjio G: Iupati, Incognito, Urbik, Richardson C: Wood, Garcia DE: Mario, Hughes, Wilson DT: Darius, Meatball, Charles OLB: Bradham, Lawson. Ty Powell, Randall Johnson ILB: Kiko, Preston Brown, Hull CB: Gilmore, Graham, Leodis, Brooks, Robey, Gunther, Cockrell S: McCourty, Aaron Williams, Duke Williams, Rambo, Meeks K: Carpenter P: Schmidt LS: Sanborn A little light on the defensive front 7 depth, but otherwise I'd be pretty happy with this. Edited February 17, 2015 by Chuck Wagon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Out of curiosity, which big board did you choose for the draft? Some of them seem so bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franchiseneedsme Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Isn't Hogan a FA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExWNYer Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Isn't Hogan a FA? He's an Exclusive Rights FA. OP - Love your first two draft picks. I wouldn't spend the kind of coin needed for Iupati. If you let Chris Williams go, he should be a post June 1st cut (better cap savings). Gresham & Mallett are a complete waste of your resources, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Wagon Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Out of curiosity, which big board did you choose for the draft? Some of them seem so bad I did composite, I do agree they seem way off on a lot. He's an Exclusive Rights FA. OP - Love your first two draft picks. I wouldn't spend the kind of coin needed for Iupati. If you let Chris Williams go, he should be a post June 1st cut (better cap savings). Gresham & Mallett are a complete waste of your resources, IMHO. I agree on Williams post June 1st, but this doesn't have an option for that. It's also got Spiller under contract. There's clearly flaws, but again it's just a fun thought exercise tool. I'm a huge fan of the potential of a Glenn-Iupati-Wood-Incognito-Newton line, I don't think it's hyperbole to say that's got the potential to be the best run blocking line in football. I do hear you on Gresham, but outside of QB there's not glaring needs and we've got the cap space if we don't sign a Revis type FA. Mallett could easily be Bradford, Locker, Hoyer or Sanchez, I liked Mallett because the app has him cheaper, he's still youngish and I like the potential of that arm in our weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExWNYer Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I did composite, I do agree they seem way off on a lot. I agree on Williams post June 1st, but this doesn't have an option for that. It's also got Spiller under contract. There's clearly flaws, but again it's just a fun thought exercise tool. I'm a huge fan of the potential of a Glenn-Iupati-Wood-Incognito-Newton line, I don't think it's hyperbole to say that's got the potential to be the best run blocking line in football. I do hear you on Gresham, but outside of QB there's not glaring needs and we've got the cap space if we don't sign a Revis type FA. Mallett could easily be Bradford, Locker, Hoyer or Sanchez, I liked Mallett because the app has him cheaper, he's still youngish and I like the potential of that arm in our weather. Yeah, I know it's fantasy for the most part (& limiting) but fun nonetheless in a long off-season. Good job with it. BTW, I ran several mock drafts here a couple of weeks back and consistently was able to land FSU OL Cameron Erving with the Bills' first pick in the 2nd and, in some cases, UGA RB Todd Gurley in the 3rd. No way does that happen in reality but it's fun to dream anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playman Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 just drafted 0: R2P18 TE CLIVE WALFORD MIAMI 81: R3P17 RB TODD GURLEY GEORGIA 129: R5P1 C B.J. FINNEY KANSAS STATE 147: R5P19 G ROBERT MYERS TENNESSEE STATE 178: R6P18 S ADRIAN AMOS PENN STATE 209: R7P17 ILB A.J. JOHNSON TENNESSEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog69 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Its a lot of fun to play around with. I signed: Bradford, Mallett, Gore, Jahri Evans, Vernon Davis, Michael Oher, Ahmad Brooks, Kenrick Ellis. brought back Hughes and Searcy and still have cap room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yeah, I know it's fantasy for the most part (& limiting) but fun nonetheless in a long off-season. Good job with it. BTW, I ran several mock drafts here a couple of weeks back and consistently was able to land FSU OL Cameron Erving with the Bills' first pick in the 2nd and, in some cases, UGA RB Todd Gurley in the 3rd. No way does that happen in reality but it's fun to dream anyway. Yeah, my best draft I got Maxx Williams in the 2nd, Todd Gurley in the 3rd and Bryce Petty in the 5th lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 SIGNED PLAYERS Name Position Cap Hit Marcus Easley WR 900,000 Chris Hairston T 3,500,000 Jerry Hughes DE 7,000,000 Da'Norris Searcy S 3,500,000 Virgil Green TE 2,450,000 Mike Iupati G 5,880,000 Kenrick Ellis DT 2,625,000 Jake Locker QB 3,000,000 Adrian Peterson RB 5,250,000 50: R2P18 QB BRETT HUNDLEY UCLA 81: R3P17 CB KEVIN JOHNSON WAKE FOREST 129: R5P1 TE CLIVE WALFORD MIAMI (FL) 147: R5P19 WR DEONTAY GREENBERRY HOUSTON 178: R6P18 QB BRYCE PETTY BAYLOR 209: R7P17 RB DEE HART COLORADO STATE well it might be pretty good for one season but you'd probably have to blow it up next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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