Free Agency Thread? Free Agency Thread.

Pacman Jones was resigned.

 

Im right there with you. What the hell is the plan at RT and CB?

 

I agree. We have gotten younger and better in certain areas. Upgraded WR and receiving TE especially, then completely seem to ignore major needs...

 

Where did you hear him say that?

 

NFL live..

 

Preach. Instead of paying a guy over 3 mil/yr to be the 4th or 5th option in the passing game we could have given half that to a young, promising starting CB from the area in Biggers. and we could have signed Bennett to start opposite Wake, forming one of the most well rounded and productive pass rush duos in the entire league. and this would mean moving Odrick back to where he belongs, which is backing up Soliai and Starks, keeping those 2 a little fresher late in games.

I mean this is just typical Ireland, even when he makes some good moves by being aggressive in FA and improving a handful of units, his mismanagement and carelessness concerning 3 of the 4 most critical positions on the field just leaves you shaking your head.

 

Same ****, different laxative.

Back to poor roster building.

Then you see the contract that certain Free Agents get..and you just scratch your head.

Fine..we are gonna put Tanny's life on the line with Martin at LT..ok...that much faith? then sign a RT?

Play in a conference with Brady, Manning and Flacco? Ignore the Cornerback position?

I was enthusiastic. Now I am wondering.

 

The draft in all likelihood.

 

Gosh, we spent a high #2 on Martin and now they will rely on him..who'd have thunk it?

Finished 3rd in the NFL in sacks, returning everyone who played and of course passrush is a problem.

Still have the draft and 12 million in hand, of course Cb is a problem, better to over pay a lesser talent

RT? Did Nate Garner not play last yr?

Rb 2? Daniel Thomas, Grey, Thigpen, the Draft.

Do I think we have all of the answers needed?

Not yet, do think it is March and there is no need to go sandy vagina quite yet.

 

I don't think anyone would have any issue with this had he not looked like one of the worst tackles in the entire league last year.

you couldn't possibly be more wrong. It's the complete opposite, we had opportunities to sign better talent to bargain deals. An example of overpaying a lesser talent would be the contract we gave Richard Marshall in that god-awful free agency period last year.

and you're actually content with Garner at RT? Lmao! Daniel Thomas is literally one level above worthless and Grey hasn't even seen the damn field yet.

 

Im only disappointed with our desire to let guys like Lewis and Bennett walk. Those are top quality guys for 5 mil per. That's incredibly doable with our cap room. I think they improve this team, and improve them for the future (2-3 years, not just 1-2 years like the signings we made in Keller and Patterson)

And LB if you're going to keep using the word literally, maybe understand what it means. He's not literally one level about worthless. That makes no sense. Unless there's a floor called "worthless" and he's on the floor above it.

As for DE, I can understand them thinking they can upgrade the pass rush in the 2nd/3rd rounds with the talent available. But you shouldn't be going into the draft with two GLARING holes, and four apparent ones. I just think that's poor planning. You need to allow yourself to draft BPA.

Which, maybe they are. Because they have so many holes, BPA will hit their position and need and bam! A+ draft!

Or maybe they genuinely think that Vernon is the future at DE, and we need a pass rush specialist we can get in the 3rd/4th

 

I see, so players never get to play to develop, the team should be manned with FA's

Thanks.

 

We were never going to fill every position of need with a free agent, the early signings this year gave everyone false hope in that regard. It looks to me like we had a list of FA's we wanted, and went out and made sure we got them no matter what. Any other signing will only be if the deal is beneficial to us.

The FO have made it clear prior to FA that the primary method of team-building is to be the draft, and most of us would agree with that aim. Filling a team with FA's has never been a successful ploy. There have been FA deals where we look and think "we could have signed him easily", but obviously the FO don't rate the player enough and would rather build through the draft. It's also too optimistic to think every position of need is going to be filled in one offseason.

Let's wait and see what the draft and the rest of FA brings before writing off this offseason.

 

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Finley is not leaving Green Bay this year.

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^^ Thank God.

 

Some of those holes will be filled- It's still quite early. Some of them aren't actually holes, there will probably be players on the roster who will develop. Some of the holes won't get filled, which is pretty much how it goes regardless.

We don't know what is what at this point, and the difference between what you would have done as a GM and what happened should not be treated as right and wrong.

 

How much cap space does Miami have left?

 

This is pretty much it, IMO. At some point you have to realize that this is a league where a premium is placed on developing talent. It really isn't feasible to fill all holes in FA, unless you're going to sacrifice something in the future.

 

Come on man, no synchronized pheremone release? I was pretty proud of that one.

 

Don't want the noise to drown out the signal

 

One thing is for certain. If Miami wants any credibility in saying they are in a position to draft the best available player becuase they have met most of their needs they are currently in no position to do that.

 

I was under the impression it was 15 million with about 7 extra coming after June 1st

 

That's not true.

The 3 biggest holes we have are RT, a 2nd DE and CB. Those positions can be adequately filled anywhere in the draft and the rest of FA. If spent 3 picks on just those positions we'd still have one more draft pick than normal 7.

 

IF Ireland and company hit on draft day.... big if.

 

Plenty of ammo.

 

As opposed to talking like none of them will and we're done in FA?

 

If any GM hits in the draft. "Big if" for all GMs. We are not in a worse position than anyone else, in fact with 11 picks we're in one of the best positions. The odds are in our favor actually.

Besides, few people fret over RT & 2nd DE being JAGs. There's also a growing segment of people who are starting to question the overall importance of top flight CBs, like raf.

 

One thing I will say, if Miami is essentially done with FA, that means they'll be ~$20M+ under the cap going into the season. That would tell me that Stephen Ross has an internal salary cap on the team.

 

Really?

I assume you have numbers pointing to starting positions that have never been filled anywhere in the draft?

 

If this ends up being the case, then the blame should go to the coaching staff as much as anyone else. Jeff Ireland can't be operating under the assumption that Jon Martin is already a bust.

 

"then the blame should go to the coaching staff as much as anyone else"

 

Not at all. It could also just be they don't like any of the remaining FAs at their current prices or they want to save money to re-sign Starks and/or Jones.