bonethug0180

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But get an offensive weapon of some sort in the 2nd round if you do this.

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Imo you do the opposite. Go after that top tier receiver in round one since the only one available in FA is Pickens, then grab Oline in round 2 (and/or in FA).

If FA had better receiver depth I think things would be very different, but the second best receiver is literally Shaheed.

But I also think you go bpa no matter what, so if that's a defensive player, Love, or even if they feel an Olineman is CLEARLY the best player when they pick, then make that pick.

Worst starter in the league then, but still a "starter" level player. xD

Currently there are only 2 players that make sense capwise cutting prior to June 1st and that's Yiadom and Godchaux. Everyone else we would have to wait/designate a June 1st cut, but we also don't get that money until then.

That means that players that people have been discussing like Ruiz, Kamara, and even McCoy are very unlikely to be gone from the team this year unless we trade them, or we create the space to carry their dead money until June 1st.

I truly don't see cuts happening outside of Yiadom and some vet minimum replacement level players we need to clear to make room for new players.

It also makes more sense to carry McCoy AND Fortner for depth rather than make it either/or. Like previously said Fortner can also function as a starting guard and has proven he can slide back to center if McCoy goes down.

Now if McCoy is injured again this year I think that will spell the end, but we should have more depth by then.

We will be less than a mil over to start (if we don't do the extensions beforehand, otherwise we'll be under), and the biggest misconception people have is they think we need to do the moves because we fricked up.

Instead people need to start grasping that the contracts are intentionally structured in a way to give us THE MOST flexibility possible, giving us players super cheap year one and the option to move money around on their contracts if wanted/"needed" (when in fact most were planned with the restructures in mind).

This way of doing it also has us come out ahead on the per year far more often than not, as players rarely get to the last year with a huge base salary, and those that do have earned it and we just spread it out again, rinse and repeat.

Where some people see a flaw is actually all intentionally designed to allow us to near infinitely maneuver to be able to be flexible and grab the players we want any given year, and we did this easily for 15 straight years despite the constant complaints and people not understanding this simple concept.

We honestly didn't even need to do the soft reset of the cap this past offseason, but because we did we can now have an insane amount of cap space and grab truly any players we would want since we can create upwards of $85 mil without losing a single player under contract.

But I'm sure the posters here know better...

It should have said trading him at that spot. That is my fault. Trading him saves as much as cutting him post June 1st iirc. Not sure why my mind went there for a second.

Also, I did agree that if we could get a 1st for him, then I think it is worth doing. Or maybe a 2nd and a 3rd. Anything less and we shouldn't do it.

All of these, pre and post Payton, were with Ireland running point on draft scouting, so maybe look that way a bit.

Why are we obsessed with only sacks judging these guys?

Also, he has 42% of the snaps Granderson got, half the sacks, a little more than half the qb hits, less than half the tackles for loss, only a third of the total tackles, and Granderson has a swatted pass and int.

Yes he costs a heck of a lot more on the cap, but cutting him only saves $7.3 mil post June 1st. So that's the amount of money we have to try to replace a guy that is a true all around DE/OLB.

Cam also did more rushing the passer with fewer snaps, but people just want to right him off as well, and act like stopping the run doesn't matter. Granderson has been very good against the run (perhaps our best run defender on the line) and can also provide some pass rush.

Unless we are getting a 1st rounder for him, it make zero sense to trade a guy like that, nor does it makes sense to let Cam walk unless he is asking for crazy money, since keeping both will save us cap this year and not give us 2 more holes we need to fill when we have so many already. Let's not make holes by getting rid of the good ones.

From the sounds of it he wants to stay here, but we have been lowballing him on the extension thus far. Deadlines make things happen though, so we'll see soon.

Tired of people saying it too. How many teams go from horrible to surprise playoff team every year? At least a couple. We can be that team EASILY and also sustain it since our QB is cheap right now.

You go all in when your QB of the future is on his rookie deal. We have 3 years to play with before we start getting to the hard part.

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Maybe re-sign cam. trade granderson. and be open to an early edge pick.

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You want at least 3 guys that can rush, and even if we resign Cam, it would still be good to hold on to Granderson since that is a 1 or 2 year play with Cam. Then you can take swings at edge guys this year and next and hope one hits for the future. No need to create holes when we are in a great spot with the cap.