Happy Tampering Day

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(03-12-2025, 10:13 AM)Au165 Wrote: In reality, if they came away with say Jenkins, Zeitler, and Za'Darius Smith (or similar 1 year 8-10 sack guy) plus getting all three of ours signed are we really upset?

There was half a billion dollars in bad contracts cut last week from the last two FA's. 90% of the deals signed the last two days don't work out, see ours from previous years. The team was a 9 win team with the two worst guards in football. Assume we even get average guard play, the jokes about winning every game in a shootout honestly isn't something we couldn't do. 

Defensive wise we lost arguably our two best corners last year in Turner and Hill. The defense should be better simply as a function of having them back but also assume slight improvements from the rookie interior guys and maybe you can get to middle of the field on defense. Again, we don't need a great defense with this offense we just need to not be the worst.

I get wanting the shinny toys but look at the commanders last year. The FA's that propelled their team forward weren't the day 1 shinny toys it was actually a bunch of 30+ year old guys that people had major questions about. Heck, even our SB run a lot of our FA's were signed later in the week on week 1 and in week 2. 

If they add a couple good Guards, yes that will help, but I don't think that makes the team markedly better compared to last year.
They will need to hit on at least one, if not 2-3 draft picks who can contribute immediately as rookies, as well as a couple of these draft picks from the past couple years finally stepping up to play well.