05-24-2025, 07:25 PM
(05-24-2025, 06:27 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: I cannot speak for others, but for me it isn't so much about keeping them in a vaccuum, particularly Stone. But more about keeping them around after bringing in FA's and draft picks at the same spots (Perine and Brooks + Patrick, Fairchild, and Rivers) AND totally whitfing on othercsreas of need (S, DT, CB, TE).
Especially since we did the same thing at LB with Pratt, bringing in Burks and Giles-Harris in FA, AND drafting Knight and Carter.
I'd much rather have had that Pratt/Moss/Volson money reinvested intobthe team, either via:
1) Getting Trey sorted
2) FA's at other positions of need
3) Better FA's at the spots we addressed
4) 2 & 3 then allow us to make different picks/fill more holes.
If we'd have signed Jenkins + Hernandez/Risner/Scherf we could have let Volson walk, Patrick + Ford + Kirkland/Stueber are your backups, and then we could have taken Watts in the 3rd. For example.
Kind of hard to be big time free agency players when the three stars you are trying to retain play the most expensive positions outside of QB. And they are still working on Trey, whose to say those renegotiations weren't to try and make room for a Trey pay raise?
We have a whole slew of young draft pick DBs on rookie contracts, they don't draft them unless they like them and intend to give them a chance. And we just drafted two DTs last year and spent on two FA DTs this year. And we just gave the biggest contract to a TE since Burrow has been here, to go along with the two draft picks last year and an UDFA from last year that made his way to the 53.
Only so much money and so many roster spots to go around. And sometimes you need to be patient with an investment to see it pay off.
Yea I woulda done stuff different if I got to make the calls. But I can't complain and say anything they have done is illogical. I think they have navigated the offseason well and this team has sky high potential.
