Definition of insanity.
www.quantamagazine.org
Many tried to diminish what Watt was doing, but if you watch the games where he was healthy, this was an entirely different D and team.
Or getting rid of both and either drafting other ILBers later or signing veteran replacements.
That is what a high functioning team should do but we aren't that. It is why I didn't have a huge issue with re-signing Conner. It isn't cap detrimental money and I was not confident we could fill the other holes anyways. There are some positions in the NFL that are really expensive to sign as FAs. WRs, OTs, DL, EDGE, CB. It makes sense to draft a bunch of players at those positions in hopes one hits. That means using FA dollars or later draft picks on ILB, S, RBs, TEs, NTs as a more cost effective build.
We can get out of everything and everyone in 4 years. You can't set anything back when it is hardly started.
Kingsbury was a genius when Colt McCoy won 2 out of 3 games last season. Now he's incompetent. In reality he is somewhere in between.
My brother and I were talking about this idea:
Well, we replaced the EDGE guys with draft picks, but not surprisingly they didn't play due to coaches decisions...
I do, kinda. They still have a TON of cap space next year.
We (a significant part of the board) talked about this all offseason, because it felt like we were punting on the season. You and others made fun of us for this view and defended the roster. I think by now it's pretty clear this team at the very least didn't do all it could to compete. At worst, they completely punted on this season. Which is a disheartening idea, as a horrible losing season will result in no change.
I didn't think they would free up cap space like they did. That's when it changed. Why free up so much cap space and not use it? If they resign Murphy, that could be helpful for the future.
I’ve mentioned this in another thread. A good GM would have a 3 year plan. A draft with a thought of replacing players who you might think won’t be here. You simply don’t let a player walk away and pray a rookie or a low cost FA is their replacement.
It’s insane to look at year 4 of a rebuild as a quasi-reset. If that was their actual plan they are dumber than I already believe them to be.
Sadly they did. Enter JJ Watt.
The Cardinals were dumb AF in their rebuild. 2018 was the perfect year. Trade away CJ and PP21. Gather draft picks and cap space.
They’ve been dumb for a while. They got lucky with Arians. Nothing can convince me of anything different at this point.
How they were not uber aggressive in the 17’ draft with a 37 year-old Carson Palmer will never escape me.
It's Keim time
This is where a lack of self awareness and poor planning comes in. What sort of contributions did they think drafting TWO EDGE players in the 3rd round were really going to be able to make? This is why the misstep with Collins was so bad. So many EDGE players available last year who you could have eased in with Jones still on the roster and instead we took an ILB. Now we are asking mid round rookies to have an immediate role and it puts them in a situation to fail.
Exactly. With you 100%.
My point is that we have zero playoff wins since 2015. That was in reference to your statement that extending Kliff, Keim and Kyler would put the franchise back 4 or 5 years. We haven't been successful enough for it to really matter. I like Kliff more than most but I can see where people feel he is a better OC than HC. I don't know that he can suddenly change and start demanding more from his players but he will likely have to in order to reach the playoffs again.
