Maybe not, but until we get out of the cycle of letting the majority of our good players leave town without signing a second contract, we'll constantly be relying on FA.
Those players might win you a game or two.
This is an excuse. Good teams find a way to retain their young and improving talent. If we want to be a good team, we need to start acting like it, and stop making excuses.
Yes, it's absurd to state that there were no FA's that could have helped our team. We have to get good at finding younger guys that other teams failed to develop.
You're saying there weren't any players that could come in and play right away? Ignoring the fact the incumbents are learning a new system too, many of our players are eminently replaceable.
Every FA is overpaid, ok.
Absolutely irrelevant and you're better than that. Lazy argument. We as posters and fans don't have to have a fully viable plan to run the FO to see that Monti signed no one for more than a 1-year nothing burger deal in FA. We also don't have to have a viable plan to run the FO to know there are clearly players out there that fit the mold for us. Trying to discredit an argument based on posters not having a viable plan to run the FO is simply a lack of debating skills akin to repeating "nuh uh" over and over again.
Personally, I am quite positive that a few ILB's that are high intensity special teamers were left on the open market for other teams to pick over. We had the money but not the balls to go all-in at a position of strength #IfYouKnowWhatI'mSayin
I feel like you could just go back to the free agency thread and look at all of the names people wanted.
Sure. And in 2024 you sign a couple more guys who can win you a game or two. Now you are at four games. Winning in the NFL is not a switch that can be flipped. There is a reason some organizations are historically bad. A lot of that is have things other than winning games as your main priority.
So. You are open to the possibility, even probability, that Monti has a plan. But that those of us on the outside looking in who are working with less information just dont know what it is.
Nuh-uuuuuh
I agree with what you are saying, I would just wait until next year to start the process. Hopefully two more picks in the top 5 in next year's draft set this team up for the future.
A guy like Kazir White maybe?
I think Conner, Pascal, and Ertz are supposed to fill this role.
Damn man, why'd you have to do that to me? I mean, I knew it, but was trying not to remember it, ya know?
Nice dodge. Am I to take it by this dodge that you are open to the possibility that we can recognize a FA nothing burger without having to be a GM ourselves?
And that would be inexcusable, because you don't just punt on seasons for absolutely no reason. None. A "Wait until next year to fully start a rebuild" mentaly gets you a losing franchise. Or, rather, perpetuates one. I mean, here's proof positive you're in support of punting on FA. "Wait until next year." Oof.
There are plenty of reasons.
...and we're not allowed to sign FAs that will help us past year 1? Clearly we're not going to fix it all in one FA period. If we don't even try to start, how do you expect to fix it in a single FA next offseason?
Not allowed? He isn't banned from spending, he just doesn't want to. I don't really blame him either.
Ah, I see what you're driving at--if we sign someone good this year, we'll play our way out of a better draft pick. Let's roll with that, though, and look at next offseason. Now we have so many holes because of all these one-year contracts, and such a dearth of talent, that one FA period and one draft aren't going to be enough to get us into the playoffs or really hope to get there. Now we're screwed for two years instead of three.
I get what you are saying too, but who knows.
I think we're getting to the heart of it now. Not that I think it's as simple as MB is screwing Monti by withholding money. More like MB never wanted to spend and sold Monti (or was in part sold by Monti) on a strategy where they just sit on their cash for this FA period. Either way, it just plain sucks and is bush league ball. When people reference the phrase "poverty franchise," this is why.
