Bill Johanesen
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it would be a shame if we drafted a top quarterback and he didn't have jeff and allison to throw to....
If he did, we'd never know if he was a top QB.
A top QB makes decent WRs look great. To jumpstart things, the QB can throw to Let's Get Paid, aka 'Allison'. Use Break The Bank's cap on IOL.
that's just a couple of kids talking about money - it's today's world....
let go of Harry and other dead-weight players...
extend hunter....
sign a 1st tier and 2nd tier dt and a couple of solid interior o-line....
sign a CB....
draft a QB....
three years?....let's go this season, baby....
JJ, Hunter, top DL, mid-tier DT, 2x mid-tier OL, CB.
What team's cap are you stealing from or what credit cards are you using? And we need a DE. And ILB. And we have ZERO backup OL if they hit free agency.
Agree on Smith, but what other dead weight players?
spotrac:
Bradbury...$5.7mm
lowry...$4.5mm
hunter...$14.8mm (dead money that factors out)
smith...$11.5mm
rework jefferson...$5mm
restructure o'neill...$9.2mm
present effective cap space...$20mm
adjusted cap space total...$70mm
jefferson...$already factored in
hunter...$15mm
top DL...$15mm (maybe less 1st year)
Mid-tier DL...$6mm
mid-tier OL (center)...$5mm
mid-tier OL (guard)...$5mm
CB...$5mm
sub total of new deals...$61.mm
new effective cap space...$9mm
I did the spotrac manage roster deal too.
We get to 60M by just doing some common sense transactions. Cutting Smith, Bradbury, Lowry, re-negotiating Hockenson.
Our cap space is middle of the pack, average age is middle of the pack. There is talent on the roster. Not as dire straits as we think.
Kwesi still needs a home run off season though.
Outside of Hunter, what talent is there on defense? Flores held it together by going full-whacked with the schemes until those pesky OCs figured things out.
Assuming the contracts for eligible FAs do expire and Smith/Lowry are cut, here is our defense:
DL: Phillips, Roy, T.J. Smith
LB/Edge: Jones, Carter, Pace, Asamoah, Kwenkeu
CB: Blackmon, Murphy, Evans, Booth, Thompson
S: Metellus, Bynum, Cine, Ward, Jackson
IMO, the only players worth starting are Pace, Blackmon, and maybe one of the safeties (the best coverage safety).
The Def depth chart is pretty bleak.
And as you've said, our cap is a mess and its not just about subtracting x and adding y for z amount of dollars to get to competitive.
Using sportrac to reconfigure our roster as some posters are doing to suddenly go from 27M today (league average) to 60M by March (which would be in top 5 of the league!) is as real as the new season of Halo. As if everything this offseason is going to be cash up front (on one year deals no less) ... for new blood ... which is exactly the opposite of how Kwesi operates.
The biggest hit on our cap in 2024 is a QB not on the roster with a 50/50 chance of being on the roster if I'm generous ... the second biggest cap hit overall is our RT ... then Jefferson (who is campaigning hard for a mega deal) ... the fourth biggest Off player is a TE ... the fifth biggest is a blocking TE ... the sixth biggest is a C ... the seventh biggest is a RB who didn't pan out as the starter ... then finally the LT who is playing for peanuts and will want to get paid ... etc etc
And that's on the strong side of the ball!
The number one cap hit on defense is a 35 yr old safety ... number two def cap hit is a FA OLB-DE with a no franchise tag clause and a 30/70 chance of being on the roster if I'm generous ... then Murphy, Davenport, Cine, Booth in that order etc etc
Its fun to look at sportrac and trade out players like playing cards with dollar values ... but our issues are far deeper. For one, there is absolutely no positional responsibility built into the cap at this point.
Big decisions and big non-decisions this offseason. Fixing something that is broken, unlike the last two years of augmenting something that was just warped. Warped with a big basecoat of 13-4 lipstick hiding our short, middle and long term financial prospects, our roster and the quality of our staff / coaching.
C'mon Kwesi ... try something different.
A big bingo! Part of the problem is due to the fallout of ripping off some band-aids (justified), and part of it is due to not ripping off enough band-aids (pull the wool over their eyes criminal). Coupled with the dismal 2022 draft, we are nowhere. 7-10 with some defensive smoke and mirrors is about right. Flores deserves to be the Pepsi DC of the year with that bunch. Ahem, at least through week 14 or whenever it was when Sean Payton said watch this and dropped the mic.
There are numerous articles, videos, and posts showing how we can tame the cap and gain talent right away. They ALL require additional cap liabilities that are kicked into oblivion and evaporate into pixie dust. Apparently all that dead cap and those high salaries won't matter later in this win now soft rebuild with a yet to be drafted QB. And NONE of them say how they will pay for all the loose ends of the existing roster, dead cap, rookie wages, etc. We have about 6 real starters on offense and maybe 5 on defense. As for backups, LMAO.
< Message edited by Bill Johanesen -- 2/13/2024 6:23:05 PM >
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