Dingo_ate_Babies

Grab Williams, draft best available pass catching TE and best available defender with our 2nd rounders.

Don't think we need him at this point unless he comes cheap. With Diontae and drafting a WR with a 2nd pick, should be enough for this year. The main thing really need is a pass catching TE.

Grab Queen, and OLB, and a corner and we are in business!

It looks like the plan this year is spend big on offense and go cheap on defense. Evero worked his magic last year with an injury-plagued defense and made it work with a bunch of nobodies. We can sign a bunch of cheap system guys and still run a decent defense.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/panthers-signing-cb-troy-hill-134513960.html

he probably gets cut if we find a new center.

Not sure what value this brings us by outright cutting him. Should of at least made him a post-June cut designation to free up some cap room.

Good. Let's not overpay for another aging vet. I'd rather go after Calvin Ridley who would be much cheaper.

Just franchise tag burns for 19 mil. See if someone is dumb enough to trade or sign him to an offer sheet.

I would take a QB in the 7th round every year. The bust rate is so high on QBs and 7th rounders are basically throw-away picks. Why not gamble taking one every year? You will luck out and find a Purdy or Brady at some point.

The worst is when you have an aging and underperforming roster full of expensive vets and there is no cap relief in sight. The Saints are a team that come to mind. We've been there before, but we're not there now. The flexibility is there to bring in some new blood. Last season, we spent our money on a bunch of aging vets who didn't perform (outside of Thielen). Don't make that mistake again.

They are going to have to get creative and restructure a number of veterans and create voidable years far down the road. It's the only way at this point if we want to compete anytime soon. Yes, we will have a lot of dead money, but the good news is we have a ton a cap space beyond this year to do it. We can also extend a few guys in order to give us more wiggle room this year. The other option is to do nothing and eat another year of not competing and focus on the 2025 season.

It was a 1-year $5 million deal. He wasn't worth that. I wouldn't give him more than $3 million.

Yep. He's worth keeping around on a cheap 1-year prove it deal and being our WR3.

Harbaugh was the only slam dunk choice. Most of other choices are unknowns or an underwhelming defensive coach.

Tyler Boyd is also a free agent, so the Bengals can't keep both him and Higgins and can't tag both either. Yeah Chark is a bum #1 or even #2, but as a #3 or #4? He's solid enough for that. He had the one monster 2 TD game with Bryce late in the season. He shouldn't be expensive to keep. Ultimately, we can find #1 in FA then we can draft BAP player or a stud TE.

Higgins is a FA so why trade for him? If we can land Higgins and pair him with Thielen and bring back Chark on a cheap deal as our #3. That wouldn't be bad trio IMO.

Chark was starting to get hot late in the season. Thielen was the go-to target for most of the year, but it was clear that Chark became Bryce's go-to target by the end of the season and Thielen tapered off. I wouldn't mind keeping him around on a cheap deal. He should take it considering he had a disappointing year overall.

Funchess was decent while he was here. Just not amazing.

Steve Smith was a 3rd rounder...just sayin..

AR15 was lost early in the season anyway so there would be no gain this year.

I believe that trade fell through so it was never on the table.

Another alternate timeline. With CMC back, we wouldn't have all those extra picks and we wouldn't have been able to sign all those free agents that we picked up during the offseason. Not that they helped us anyway. Dalton with CMC and DJ Moore. Same O-line. Defense roughly the same as now (minus Bell plus Carter).

Forgot to mention we would have had an extra 2nd rounder and could have used it on Tank Dell. Offense line would be the same and injuries would still be the same.

We stayed at the 9 overall pick and selected Jalen Carter. Dalton is our starter this season plus DJ Moore and the same team around him as now. What is our record? Do we win the division?