Man, people are really going to be disappointed in how free agency plays out, methinks.
Well, this, after all, is "supposed" to be an Arizona Sports (Cardinals?) Fans network. I actually enjoy reading people who try to actually show support for the local team.
Big difference between support--which we all do, unless you're questioning fandoms?--and blind support.
Exactly. Folks pretending like we still have the exact same team that needs to be improved are sorely mistaken. We're a few steps back from where we were, and even then we had too many holes and lack of talent to be anything. Monti has a mountain to climb, and he has to do it now. Not after a few years of ho-hum, cartoon sloth speed approach. The future is now.
Your a counselor. You understand toxic relationships. Constant negativity and bitching is not support. It's abuse, and to try and convince otherwise is gaslighting.
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Won’t be the first time….or the last….
My problem with Murray is consistency. It’s still too easy for teams to pressure him into folding. I don’t question his physical ability. In that respect he’s one of the best. However, top QBs rise to the occasion in big games; he did the opposite late in the season. The weird part is he’d showed up big at the end of earlier games. It’s time for him to be a force that can’t easily be contained. They need to give him a little more help, but he’s been the man long enough that these regressions should not be recurring. I think he has one more chance to be the guy he can be. I don’t think this is one of those cases where he goes somewhere else and stars. If he’s thinking that way he may soon find the grass really isn’t greener.
I’m good with above average. I agree Sweat is not a Hall of Famer, but he’s an upgrade capable of impacting a few games. That would help. I have no illusions that he’s simply a building block who can rush the QB and set the edge.
I agree completely.
Like he Koonce idea a lot. Might not get him that cheaply, but I’d pay more for a shot at an up and comer like him.
And I don't think it is an insurmountable task, but it will require Monti to operate differently than he has his two preceding off-seasons.
That ain't the Patriot way. (Which only worked with Tom Brady)
Jordan Davis is overrated but Jalen Carter is a difference maker and elevates the quality depth around him a lot.
Beggars can't be choosers. Monti can sit on his high horse an be worried about 5 mil whilst the team remains a sub 500 squad and he is forced to fire his coaches. Your quibbling over 5-8 mil when the EDGE group is lacking actual NFL level players is silly in a year that will require improvement and is piloted by a "mid QB". Look at Monti's FA class last year along the DL. He added mid players to mid contracts who didn't produce much during the time they were actually healthy.
I don't hate the idea but Monti would need to add other players as well, and really hope his knee holds up after missing an entire season.
Going after pretty unproven guy coming off missing his entire 4th season and paying him decent money, but not break the bank dollars, to be our answer at Edge, seems like such a penny-wise/pound foolish Cardinals move.
