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Draft and free agency

Ja Rhule

By Ja Rhule,
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Doc Holiday Grand Master

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10 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

I wouldn't expect too much in FA, even if we have $38 million in cap space after the obvious moves, I'm guessing $25 of that will be going to Norman and Short.

Doesnt leave a ton of room for too many impactful starters.

Probably will end up with a nice possession WR who knows how to get open, a rotational pass rushing DE, and then hope we hit on a CB, DE, OL, and S in the draft.

I'm not expecting too much more than that as most of our money will be spent locking up our own guys.

Contrary to expectations in the NFL 1 great year doesnt get you franchise money, Norman has had 2 great years, while Short has really only had 1. that matters, norman is going to cost more.

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Can we please sign a notable name in free agency, PLEASE. We always get the bottom of the barrel. No more dollar store shopping

 

Someone like Travis Benjamin would be perfect, I would even settle for Mike Wallace, who I think will be cut by the Vikes. Wallace is a way better version of Ginn 

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8 minutes ago, Doc Holiday said:

Contrary to expectations in the NFL 1 great year doesnt get you franchise money, Norman has had 2 great years, while Short has really only had 1. that matters, norman is going to cost more.

Tell that to Ted Ginn and Mike Mitchell.  Both guys were bottom of the barrel free agents and them signed nice deals elsewhere after one good year in Carolina, nevermind a great year.  It's a "what have you done for me lately" league.  If you have a career year in a contract year, you're gonna aget paid.

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4 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

Can we please sign a notable name in free agency, PLEASE. We always get the bottom of the barrel. No more dollar store shopping

 

Someone like Travis Benjamin would be perfect, I would even settle for Mike Wallace, who I think will be cut by the Vikes. Wallace is a way better version of Ginn 

I kind of like the idea of our WR 1 & 2 being known as "the Benjamins."  I can already see the Internet memes.

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8 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Tell that to Ted Ginn and Mike Mitchell.  Both guys were bottom of the barrel free agents and them signed nice deals elsewhere after one good year in Carolina, nevermind a great year.  It's a "what have you done for me lately" league.  If you have a career year in a contract year, you're gonna aget paid.

not really, they got decent contracts but nothing outside the box.  Same thing will happen, I think we will sign short for $8m ay and will try to sign Norman for $9m ay or tag him. honestly with Norman's play this year I wouldn't be surprised if we offered him a heavily front loaded contract, like $14m this year then drop it to 7 next for example, a little back pay and we have the space this year to front load a contract like that. we take a big cap hit in a year we can, and everyone walks away happy.

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CJ and Allen gone.  CJ will probably get overpaid somewhere else.  Allen may come back cheap but I bet he hangs it up.  Stewart is probably staying,  but we really need to start looking to the future there, I bet we draft another RB later on in the draft.

Short will be a priority in extension.  Star is a question mark, his foot issues are a worry but he was solid most of the year.   Norman is the question mark, but I think you have to keep him here for a few years.   Even when he gets older, he may be able to play safety, he doesn't mind hitting.

We need o-line help.  Remmers is a backup at best.   We need a real future backup for Kalil.   We need to draft another LB because it wouldn't surprise me if Klein eventually leaves to start somewhere.   

I think we'll go DE with first pick if value is there.  Ealy is a stud, we just need another guy.  Addison and Delaire are good future backups.    We will probably draft safety help as well.  

I wouldn't mind us getting another WR in free agency.  KB will be back, but it's not a guarantee he'll be who he was before.  

We need to cut Teddy Williams, NOW.  Guy has a penalty every GAME.  We need a new special teams coach.  This team has been trash on ST for way too many years.  It's really hosing us.  

Gano is not dependable.  If there are better options, I wouldn't mind replacing him.  Yeah it's fun seeing all those touchbacks but when you get sick when it's time for a FG or XP, you have to question.  

 

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Benjamin will be back, Bene will be back. Williams most likely takes over at RT. CJ is gone and Ealy will take over full time at DE. That's 4 starting spots that are going to be upgraded without doing anything.

Then DG is going to have some money to spend in free agency for the first time ever and a full lot of draft picks for a guy that's had 3 consecutive A+ drafts. And we're really not losing anyone either, basically the entire team is going to be back.

That's the offseason we're looking at and we're building upon a roster that just went 17-2.

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