"we keep our own"

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(02-14-2017, 10:03 PM)zygrot24 Wrote: With free agency about to go into full swing. There are still people in this board that get shocked when we don't make a big mobe. But it's been this way since the dawn of time.

And I've gotten ok with it, because Mike Brown and Marvin preach the "we keep our own"philosophy. And I'm ok with that. But the problem comes when they back out of their end. To just let big Z walk goes against everything they've preached about the draft and free agency. There's even talks about not knowing I'f we'll resign Dre K.

What good is blowing off free agency if you're not even re upping our good draft picks contracts.

A co-worker and I were discussing this very topic yesterday.  Year after year, we get this schpiel about rolling over money to extend our own.  Then we either screw around and try to low ball some of them and they walk, we wait until the midnight hour (essentially saying we kinda want you around....but it has to be cheap) or we just let 'em walk.  Then, we don't replace them with a similar caliber player, we hit the atomic dust bin.  Here's where it gets REAL frustrating.....we can't "overpay" a homegrown talent we actually need like a Kevin Zietler, but we can overpay two aging turds for a decade in Peko and Hockaloogie, instead of replacing THEM with a scrap heap FA and saving money against the cap THERE.  What the actual ****?

(02-15-2017, 09:55 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Let's just say I'm not convinced Zeitler is gone. I think they do a deal with him....

I hope you're right, and that they haven't conveyed the wrong message to Z and his agents.  The guy isn't an all world player, but he is good.  When the rest of that side of the line is below average to terrible, I just don't think we can afford to lose him.  Better yet, Andy can't afford it.