Mike says Dalton should "re-establish himself" but FO needs to establish themselves

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(05-12-2019, 07:34 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The Ravens have also won 2 Super Bowls and won 15 playoff games since 2000. Oh...but, they'll eventually run into cap trouble is what people always say about the Ravens and Steelers.

Well, we kept a clean salary cap and have won 0 playoff games and 0 Super Bowls. AND, 3 years ago, our team was tore apart by free agency. (Sanu, Jones, Whitworth, Zeitler, Andre Smith, Nelson, Hall, etc.) So it's not like we didn't experience cap issues too.

This whole free agency is bad thing is ridiculous. There are guys every year who can be signed to reasonable contracts. Instead, the anti-free agency crowd looks at the ones who sign the largest deals. I don't think anyone here advocates that.

But, signing mediocre to bad guys like Miller, Hart, and Webb ARE NOT how you win. Webb and Miller had arguably 1 average season in the NFL...and we overpay them.

We act like free agency is bad here, and want to copy McVay with the Rams but when he became coach, they added: Whitworth, Kayvon Webster, Robert Woods, John Sullivan, and Connor Barwin. Add 5 quality free agents to our roster and we'd probably be a playoff contender.

Webster got cut after his first year with the Rams. Barwin was signed on a cheap 1 year deal and not resigned after a dissappointing 5 sack campaign.   They cut Sullivan loose after last year.  Woods had a great year last year, but had never had a 1000 yard season before that and signed for under $7 mil a year.