12-10-2024, 02:10 PM
(12-10-2024, 09:51 AM)Housh Wrote: There’s no one else to pay
Literally no one but Trey is worth paying one
You absolutely have the money to do it. It’s sad you have the money but you do.
This x100.
I said last year the cornerstones were Burrow, Chase, Hendrickson, Reader, and Higgins. OBJ borderline. Everyone else is where you cut if necessary.
We let Reader walk and spent 2 Day 2 picks and $12 mil in FA to replace him and failed. Replacing elite players, at ANY position, is hard. See Bates, Jessie.
Most/many/all of the guys in the $7-$12 mil range on this team are either massively underperforming (Rankins, Stone, Hubbard), FA's (BJ Hill, Hilton), or not nearly as good as Higgins and easier to replace (Cappa, Karras, Pratt, even L. Wilson). Heck, Drew Sample makes $5 mil this year, and McPherson $4.5 next.
Next year, we have $62 mil in cap space (not counting the picks and PS), with 42 guys signed. And that is with Burrow at $46 and Chase at $21.8.
Restructuring Burrow (even without his consent) can save $20 mil, but it looks like he is willing to go max restructure, we could save more. We have space to sign Tee (or tag him again), extend Chase (the only hit next year will be the signing bonus money proration).
Burrow restructure +$20 mil, Tee tag -$25 mil, Chase proration -$9 mil = -$14 mil from $62 and hlee have $48. mil. Minus around $4 for the PA and say $10 for the picks and it is down to $34 mil.
And that is without touching Rankins and Hubbard ($9.5 & $9.6 in cap savings), Stone ($6.5), Cappa ($8 mil), Pratt ($5.6), Moss ($3.5), etc.
I am not saying we jettison ALL those guys, but some cuts can be made. Restructures.
Keep Tee. Prioritize trenches in FA & draft (IOL, DT, DE). Secondary next (S & CB). Get a premium guy or two. We can bargain hint & fill in around the edges elsewhere (OT depth, slot WR, 2 way TE/Gesicki-Hudson back, LB speed, FG kicker).
Snap counts/PFF Grades, Contract 2025/Savings
Offense:
QB1: Burrow: 844/92.0, $46.25/($57.0)
RB1: Chase Brown: 494/75.4, $1.1/$958k
WR1: Chase: 786/84.8, $21.8/$0
WR2: Higgins: 424/84.4, FA ($21.8)
WR3: Iosivas: 659/52.0, $1.07/$990k
TE1: D. Sample: 463/45.2, $2.75/$2.75
LT: Orlando Brown Jr.: 473/58.7, $15.3/($252k)
LG: Volson: 786/57.1, $1.26/$1.1
C: Karras: 848/59.7, $6.3/$4.8
RG: Cappa: 848/53.9, $10.25/$8.0
RT: Mims: 689/57.7, $3.5/($9.1)
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OT/OG: Ford: 483/54.4, FA ($1.35)
TE2/WR4: Gesicki: 380/68.1, FA ($2.5)
RB1(Inj): Moss: 297/58.2, $4.975/$3.475
TE2/TE3 (inj): All: 231/59.9, $1.16/$563k
RT1 (inj): Trent Brown: 139/65.2, FA
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WR4/PS Irwin: 125/45.5, FA (PS)
WR5: Burton: 127/61.2, $1.3/$533k
TE4: Hudson: 110/65.0, FA ($1.15)
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Everyone else it under 40 snaps. OBJ has dropped since trying to play through the injury, good in pass pro, poor in run block.
No one outside of Burrow, Chase, Higgins, Chase Brown, Gesicki, and OBJ (pre injury) & Trent Brown have been better that mediocre. And some worse.
