This is inane. Yes, they have this much cap space to work with, but they have 24 total players on the roster next season if you count DHop, Conner, and Ertz. Even if you assume that all of our draft picks stick (and throw in a three more from trades), that's 31 players of 53 you need to fill a football team and 80 to take to training camp.
I have not seen one post stating this. It's closer to the new FO can't do anything right than they can do no wrong. This board is becoming unreadable. We have no idea what the roster will look like opening day but people want to bitch & moan about things that are months away from training camp even.
Horrible. I’ve been in his shoes before and it sucks!
bingo.
duh.
this just isn't hard for anyone to understand.
I wear Darksider glasses, so that's all fine
lol Right, the requisite "shut up and wait and see" post when we already saw young talent walk and old "talent" be given money and re-signed. But nah, we're not allowed to consider any of that.
What I think we're seeing is posters trying their hardest to have faith in a new regime and are willing to ingest the hopium because anything else will mean this regime is getting off to a bad start. I totally get it, too. The thought that they're already stepping on their own schlongs is almost enough to make my stomach gurgle. It stinks. I'm not happy to feel this way. Unfortunately, the rest of us are watching what's happening and reading the writing on the wall. It's not pleasant reading ATM.
Where did I say shut up & wait & see? I said it's closer to the opposite of what you said. Personally I wanted to keep Murphy & Allen. But Allen wasn't coming back no matter what because he wanted to follow VJ imo.
This guy gets it. #Bullseye
Exactly. And contracts that are costing 1-2 peanuts. It’s the stupid contracts like Hopkins, Murray and others that are the back breakers.
Murphy and Allen were gone fast, so its pretty clear there was communication between them and the team as far as plans and expectations.
I wear Darksider glasses, so that's all fine
Yes, I realize we're going to suck. I can only hope we suck bad enough to get the first pick in the draft. This is not the problem. Knowing we're going to stink, we should still do our best to maximize our down time, so to speak. We aren't. We're spending money on some aging/old players for no purpose. We are purposefully making ourselves worse for no reason with players who are young and should have been part of the long-term solution. While we need to fill out the roster and not burn a lot of cap space doing so, we should at least be trying to get a few players part of our long-term plan. The draft can only fill so many holes, and we know--not fear, but know--that many of those picks won't work out. It's a simple fact of the draft.
Basically, what we're setting ourselves up for is years of suckage, not a year of suckage. Had we retained our young talent, fully cleared out the roster, and signed a few good up-and-comer FAs to long-term deal, they could be developing into solid starter/stars at the same time our young guns are firing, at the same time this year's draft hits are coming into their own, and we could bolster that with FA next year. Instead, we're going to be so bare of talent next offseason, we won't have a freaking prayer of competing in 2024 without burning a big chunk of money in FA. Our actions this offseason will prevent anything else. But, then, the team won't do that, because it's bad strategy, which rose-colored believers in the FO will lap up, and we'll have to keep our powder dry for ANOTHER offseason.
Building solely through the draft while letting your own talent walk without adequately tearing down the team is a recipe for prolonged failure. It's a 4-5 year rebuilding project that never nears completion. It's a few cycles of failure and then a new regime.
I don't mind us sucking this year; I'd like to have at least a chance in 2024.
We’ve all been through this dozens of the time over the years. I understand the lack of trust and the presumption of doom.
Didn’t we have 25-30 headed into FA this season?
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You said schlongs lol
