12-09-2020, 06:51 PM
(12-09-2020, 06:39 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: We already have a good-not-great CB in Trae Waynes.
We potentially have another average to good Mackanzie Alexander, if we choose to resign him. Not to mention players like Darquez Denard, who are serviceable, can be had for a 4.5 million average.
We don't have one single guard signed for next year that is even close to average.
Seems incredibly unwise to throw a near 30 million at two CB's with a terrible OL, and no pass rush. You'd be better off focusing on OL/DL in free agency and the draft, and getting by with a highly paid Waynes and a mid-tier vet (3-6 mil) and using that money elsewhere.
It's not as if our only guard options are Joe Thuney or Mike Jordan. Jordan was just abysmal (and that's setting aside the question of a new OL coach). You make it sound like if we pay a CB we just have to line up Jordan again.
Incidentally, you often point to Miami as a team that represents all of our personnel failings - and they pay two top dollar CBs. It means you don't have to pay a top dollar pass rusher, not necessarily that you have to have Mike Jordan as a starting guard.
Not having two good CBs lost us the Cleveland game, btw. Somebody better than Phillips probably makes that play at the end.
