2014 Free Agent Signing

[t96]

It's also accurate

 

Be honest. You're only pissed at him because of the way he treated Smitty.

[BuffaloBills62]

That is just pathetic to look at.  You know, you almost could say Rivera and Shula should get a pass for what has happened this year.

 

...almost.

[IceWhiteice]

Did we even plan to give Hardy a long term deal? I dont think so

[General_Purr]

Velesco, Cason were probably the best overall........ 

 

But who knows what its really like to be behind the desk trying to put together a team.

 

 

[AceBoogie]

Be honest. You're only pissed at him because of the way he treated Smitty.

I'm pissed that the roster is worse now than when he got it.

[davos]

Looking at the players and contracts from the FA, sure we could've spent a little more in some areas but I feel Dave is setting us up for quite the room to spend this next offseason and especially the following.  Smitty will be the only significant non-Panther with dead money effecting us after this year at like 4 million.  That's it and the next closest is well under 1 mill.  

 

We had $20 mil+ in dead money this season.  That's why I give him a pass this year.  Not many teams have to deal with that much crap.  

 

That's what he had to work with so I don't blame him for sitting through this past FA period and doing next to none guaranteed multi-year deals.  Not to mention the league cap goes up next year and not even counting potentially cutting D'lo or CJ, we could be looking at over $22 million in cap space.   The WR crop was crap and the OT crop was average and being overpaid.  There were some decent mid-tier OTs we could've had at RT though and I hated our secondary signings (That could've been much better).  He's working us toward having room to spare, not trying to spend until we have almost no room.  

 

That being said, his dumpster diving abilities looked worse this year and I still think DG should be under a microscope this coming offseason into next year.  This revolves around the impending Rivera decision, more cap to work with, and building around Cam.    

[thefuzz]

I'm pissed that the roster is worse now than when he got it.

 

Maybe, maybe not.

 

 

Even if it's worse (I'm not agreeing) it's much cheaper, and that's what had to happen if we were ever going to get out of the bottom 1/3 of the NFL.

[grimesgoat]

cam'

Big news guys' I just got back from traveling back to March 2014 and I was able to do the things you asked. I talked Gross out of retirement for 6m.  I was able to match munnerlyn's and Mitchell's deals but now we're stuck with those turds for 3 and 5 yrs.  I kept smith so we get to pay him 7 mil this year.  We can cut him next year if we want and it will only cost us 6 mil more. I re-signed Ginn and lafell so we get to pay them 3 more yrs.  I stuck around and drafted the same guys so we are set.  Only problem, the bill came to 132m including the dead money so I couldn't get hardy too.  But that's OK because he probably won't play anyway.

 

So we have no pass rush.  Our crap secondary is exposed.  We have several inflated long-term contracts and no money to carry over for cam's next contract.  Our left tackle will be gone nextyear and we need to pay our 37 year-old wr 10 mil.  But at least we might win 6 games.

 

Your welcome.

[IamSoClutch]

Just cause we have 20 million in dead money coming off the books doesn't make it spending money does it. I mean that doesn't mean we have 20 million in cap space right?