Why Not?

[casear2727]

(03-09-2022, 12:01 AM)leonardfan40 Wrote: We were a play or two away from winning the Super Bowl with this team. We don’t need a ton of cap space to improve this team. Why ditch a guy who plays 75% of offensive snaps at a reasonable price creating a new hole that needs filled? Why fill that hole with some guys who can “do the job” when we have a legit starting WR that any team would Be lucky to have?


Yes we were a play or two away. Like in the redzone after the Awuzie interception on 3rd down our veteran 75% taker of snaps runs the wrong route causing a sack and forcing us to take a FG after CJ had cleared the path to the endzone... or maybe the play where our 10M WR3 dropped a crucial 3rd down pass late in the Super Bowl?


We have over $50 mil if we cut Waynes and Hopkins. Less if we keep Hopkins but then we also have one less o line spot to replace. We can bring back one of our DT’s, bring back apple or a better CB, and upgrade 2-3 spots on the O line fixing our biggest weakness. Why cut a starting WR and our ONLY WR depth after Tee/Chase that’s worth anything?


Why cant we draft a WR? Or sign one of the 5000 available that could easily average 28 yds a game? 

Depth in the event we lose Tee or Chase is the one valid argument I can agree with, but is it enough for $10M when we had 4 olinemen not making 9M combined?


This team isn’t bad. We have enough cap space to fix our problems without cutting valuable contributors. There may come a time when it makes sense to do that. This is not that time. We should be ADDING to the AFC championship roster, not fixing one hole by creating a new one. That is not necessary with the cap we have. The best team we can roster going into 2022 will have Boyd at WR3.


I can name 8 receivers in this draft that could easily average 28 yds per game for us. Boyd no longer brings to the table what he used to due to the other two receivers.  He could be much more valuable to another team and we could be better for it in the short and long term.  He will never have more value than right now, no one will want him next year with only one year left and then the next year he walks with zero in return.