10-21-2020, 03:16 PM
(10-21-2020, 03:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: When you are a team that builds through the draft you don't spend $145 million on free agents.
And you don't spend over $20 million on one-year deals for Green and Alexander.
The stadium was empty last year so the front office switched gears. They knew they could not live with an empty stadium for 3 or 4 years.
You're talking about one year where they actually went out and spent money in free agency, but we all know until they show us otherwise that was a huge exception. This is largely a team that builds through the draft, and they had a very good opportunity to trade 3 players who last year could have brought a decent return in draft picks, again in the middle of a 2-14 season, so it didn't matter one iota who was on the roster to replace them.
If the team had been on the verge of competing last year then I could see a case to keep them. They were nowhere close to competing and completely dropped the ball in getting value from teams who were competing who think they could have used a Geno or Dunlap to help them. Now they are stuck with them.
