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Let's play GM...
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:32 am
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:32 am
Okay, let's say that the saints continue to play the up and down game that they've been doing all season and finish the year with a 6-10 record and the No. 9 pick in the draft. Tell me your first roster move(s), 1st round selection, and coaching changes. Here's mine:
1. Roster moves: Extend Drew in Tom Brady fashion, 3 more years with no new money that clears about ~$6M in cap space this year and more down the road. If I have determined that Junior Galette is a locker room cancer, then I cut him before the 3rd day of the new league year, saving ~$12M in cap space. Based on the amount of space I have freed up, I carefully observe the FA market. I'll come back to this one.
2. Coaching changes: Rob Ryan, Bill Johnson, Wesley McGriff, and Joe Vitt hit the road. Pete Carmichael takes a demotion. I bring in Dennis Allen to coach the defense and Tony Sparano to be the "offensive coordinator" and assistant head coach. I'll allow those guys to pick their position coaches. While their stints in Oakland were not very good, they are still good coordinators and have chemistry with one another as well as with my head coach Sean Payton. Allen will probably switch back to a 4-3 defense and he could turn his focus to the pass rush by pursuing Brandon Graham from PHI or Cliff Avril from SEA in free agency. Two good players that we will not have to break the bank for. I'm also rooting for Stefen Wisniewski to come play C for me.
3. 1st round selection - It comes down to Nate Orchard, DE from Utah and Shaq Thompson, OLB from Washington and I go with Thompson. He fits the mold of freakishly athletic, but undersized linebackers that can break a game open. He adds a speed and coverage element that has been missing from the defense for years.
Then I smoke a cigar.
1. Roster moves: Extend Drew in Tom Brady fashion, 3 more years with no new money that clears about ~$6M in cap space this year and more down the road. If I have determined that Junior Galette is a locker room cancer, then I cut him before the 3rd day of the new league year, saving ~$12M in cap space. Based on the amount of space I have freed up, I carefully observe the FA market. I'll come back to this one.
2. Coaching changes: Rob Ryan, Bill Johnson, Wesley McGriff, and Joe Vitt hit the road. Pete Carmichael takes a demotion. I bring in Dennis Allen to coach the defense and Tony Sparano to be the "offensive coordinator" and assistant head coach. I'll allow those guys to pick their position coaches. While their stints in Oakland were not very good, they are still good coordinators and have chemistry with one another as well as with my head coach Sean Payton. Allen will probably switch back to a 4-3 defense and he could turn his focus to the pass rush by pursuing Brandon Graham from PHI or Cliff Avril from SEA in free agency. Two good players that we will not have to break the bank for. I'm also rooting for Stefen Wisniewski to come play C for me.
3. 1st round selection - It comes down to Nate Orchard, DE from Utah and Shaq Thompson, OLB from Washington and I go with Thompson. He fits the mold of freakishly athletic, but undersized linebackers that can break a game open. He adds a speed and coverage element that has been missing from the defense for years.
Then I smoke a cigar.
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Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:33 am to Zoombop
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3 more years with no new money that clears about
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. If I have determined that Junior Galette is a locker room cancer, then I cut him before the 3rd day of the new league year, saving ~$12M in cap space
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Pete Carmichael takes a demotion
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Then I smoke a cigar.
While leaving our interior line as complete shite
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:36 am to Zoombop
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Let's play GM...
fire myself.
next
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:37 am to Zoombop
Agree with all except Rob and Mcgriff. He could be gone but with 3 safeties out and only one NFL caliber LB'er coupled with "what happened to our pass rush" I think he may get another shot. He needs some health and some play makers. Not sure a new DC assures all that.
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 11:43 am
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:37 am to TigerBait1127
Fire Rob and about 5 other dumb shits
Trade Drew
Trade Jimmy
Trade Junior
Cut Jahri
Cut Marques
Cut Grubbs
Cut Bunkley
Cut Hawthorne
Trade Khiry
Trade Payton to SF 4 Harbaugh
Trade for Johnny Football
Trade Drew
Trade Jimmy
Trade Junior
Cut Jahri
Cut Marques
Cut Grubbs
Cut Bunkley
Cut Hawthorne
Trade Khiry
Trade Payton to SF 4 Harbaugh
Trade for Johnny Football
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:40 am to Zoombop
lol
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:41 am to Chad504boy
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:44 am to TigerBait1127
Draft an interior lineman high, one that can play Guard and Center.
Move Lelito to Guard and release one of our high priced Guards.
Let Ingram walk in FA.
Draft a playmaking LB (I'd take one in the first round if he's good enough).
Hawthorne = gone.
Get rid of every receiver not named Cooks or Stills.
Resign P-Rob to a 1 year (prove it) deal (if possible).
Get rid of Corey White.
Force SJB into action somehow...Specials? If he sucks that bad, cut him.
Resign our best safety (Rafael Bush)
Draft D-Lineman (I think we are too light on the D-line). I salivate watching Baltimore with 350 lb 5 techniques.
Give me Dennis Allen as D Coordinator.
Move Lelito to Guard and release one of our high priced Guards.
Let Ingram walk in FA.
Draft a playmaking LB (I'd take one in the first round if he's good enough).
Hawthorne = gone.
Get rid of every receiver not named Cooks or Stills.
Resign P-Rob to a 1 year (prove it) deal (if possible).
Get rid of Corey White.
Force SJB into action somehow...Specials? If he sucks that bad, cut him.
Resign our best safety (Rafael Bush)
Draft D-Lineman (I think we are too light on the D-line). I salivate watching Baltimore with 350 lb 5 techniques.
Give me Dennis Allen as D Coordinator.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:46 am to TigerBait1127
Not saying Drew (or his contract) is the problem at all, but his contract is probably the easiest to manage right off the bat because I think he'd be willing which is why I would make it the first move. I would absolutely address the interior line, but I didn't want to detail every move for readers' sakes. Notice that I did add a tidbit about adding Wisniewski to play C for us.
As for the Galette thing, I've been hearing rumblings about how his immaturity is rubbing a lot of guys the wrong way in the locker room, players and coaches. It seemed like Brees, Watson, and Strief's comments after yesterday's game were pointed straight at him and his idiotic comments earlier in the week. I left the door open for him to stay though because I like him a lot as a player, but the precedent has been set by other teams based on what to do with "cancerous players." T.O., Percy Harvin, Randy Moss, to name a few.
As for the Galette thing, I've been hearing rumblings about how his immaturity is rubbing a lot of guys the wrong way in the locker room, players and coaches. It seemed like Brees, Watson, and Strief's comments after yesterday's game were pointed straight at him and his idiotic comments earlier in the week. I left the door open for him to stay though because I like him a lot as a player, but the precedent has been set by other teams based on what to do with "cancerous players." T.O., Percy Harvin, Randy Moss, to name a few.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:50 am to Zoombop
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Not saying Drew (or his contract) is the problem at all, but his contract is probably the easiest to manage right off the bat because I think he'd be willing which is why I would make it the first move.
He isn't going to extend for free. He's going to extend for the same rate.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:57 am to TigerBait1127
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He isn't going to extend for free. He's going to extend for the same rate.
Okay, then I just misunderstood how Brady's extension worked, but ideally he would do something along those lines.
ETA:
The next biggest cuts would have to come from paycuts or outright cutting Grubbs and/or Evans. Colston's contract makes him almost uncuttable.
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 11:59 am
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:03 pm to Zoombop
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Colston's contract makes him almost uncuttable.
5.4 M dead money, save over $4M
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:07 pm to swamie
Yeah, but when the dead money outweigh's the freed up space like that, it just doesn't look good. It could be better to keep him on for one more year, then cut him because the numbers look way better for that to happen next year.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:20 pm to Zoombop
I'm doing everything I can to address both lines.
New DL and OL coaches.
At least 1-2 new DTs and one backup DE.
A new Guard and a new Center.
Obviously need to address CB (x2) and LB.
New DL and OL coaches.
At least 1-2 new DTs and one backup DE.
A new Guard and a new Center.
Obviously need to address CB (x2) and LB.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:10 pm to Zoombop
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Coaching changes: Rob Ryan, Bill Johnson, Wesley McGriff, and Joe Vitt hit the road. Pete Carmichael takes a demotion.
Not a chance Joe Vitt gets fired. If he were gonna get fired, he would have been gone years ago. It's obvious by now his position's play has no bearing on his employment.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:25 pm to Pendulum
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Not a chance Joe Vitt gets fired. If he were gonna get fired, he would have been gone years ago. It's obvious by now his position's play has no bearing on his employment.
You're probably right, but this year is a little different. It's the first time he hasn't had a leader in the mold of Vilma, Fujita, or Shanle and his group has been terribly exposed. I think in the past he's been applauded for getting so much out of Shanle and Vilma, two cast-offs from other teams, but now he's just gotten so little out of Lofton, Hawthorne, and every other guy in that group. If Payton is true to his word, he'll evaluate everything and everyone. But again, you're probably right.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:26 pm to Zoombop
I don't disagree with the logic, but Vitt is going to be here as long as Payton is here.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:26 pm to Zoombop
I seriously doubt Payton does anything drastic as long as there's a chance to take the division... but if the Falcons win tonight, maybe something happens? I dunno.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 3:42 pm to Laaz2750
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As for the Galette thing, I've been hearing rumblings about how his immaturity is rubbing a lot of guys the wrong way in the locker room, players and coaches.
I noticed something in his Pittsburgh post-game interview that rubbed me the wrong way too. The reporter was asking him about the game and why it was so important and the first thing he said was that he was excited about getting the day off tomorrow. I felt like that comment showed some real immaturity and lack of focus. The team had been struggling, you finally get a win, and you're most focused on getting a day off. I understand that the NFL is demanding and players need to get rest but in the crucial stretch of the season that's your biggest concern. C'mon Junior.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 4:39 pm to BigDawg0420
Yeah I agree. Even if it's true, you don't say it in a press interview. Immature and, frankly, kinda dumb.
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