re: Cut Spiller and Ingram and roll with Forte/Hightower

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Byrd, Galette, Browner have been bad deals. You could argue Spiller, too.

We have absolutely got to hit on guys like Hightower and Breaux to at least be somewhat competitive.

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Can you show me a team that hits it out the park on every FA acquisition every year?

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Yes, but that's still dollars you can't use. If we (and we will) extend Drew that will push the problem into the future, thus making it more than a one year problem.

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so what do you want to do? Not extend Brees?

Because that seems like your solution when Brees and Brady finished the season at 36 and 38 years of age and still put up top 5 numbers.

You want to be like the Broncos with their cap space? We were the Broncos in 2012. Tons of free agents, but we kept most of our players and lost others. Replaced them with seemingly viable solutions (Nicks->Grubbs, Hawthorne, Lofton, etc) and it failed. They'll have the same issue and a new one without a HOF QB (regardless if he is a shell or not) at the helm.

You want us to be like the Patriots? They have 900k in cap space with 2-3 players they can cut to make room.

Mayo: 11.4mil cap hit (7.0mil saved, 4.4mil dead)
Cannon/Vollmer: 5mil cap hit (approx); 3-3.5mil save, 1-1.5mil dead

they also have a few free agents they want to keep. Not everyone can have Brady's contract currently and 2-3 years ago it looked damning how stuck they were with him considering how piss poor he was playing before they reloaded him with receivers and OLinemen.