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(10-17-2017, 09:56 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think there is a huge misunderstanding when me, Shake, Wyche say we need to sign impact free agents. People assume we mean go out and sign Suh or the top-priced free agent.

That is not what we advocate.

Nor do we advocate building an entire team through free agency. I realize we must draft well to win. I also realize that we must sign some Tier 2 and 3 free agents to supplement the roster.

We have the cap space. Before we signed Burfict, we had $18.5 million in cap space. After Whitworth and Zeitler left...what if we signed a Ronald Leary for $8.5 million a year? Or a TJ Lang for $6 million a year at Guard.

Or in 2016, Alex Macks cap hit was 4.05 million. He then costed $8.5 million this year. But that's a small cost for the best Center in the game and as I said we have the cap space.

Instead, after DeCastro signed a contract for $10 million a year...the Bengals offered Zeitler (according to Lapham) $5.5 million a year. They lowballed him.

The NFL is watered down this year big time. If there was ever a time to go all in on the roster to try to win a Super Bowl it's this year! Yet we didn't.

This. Right. Here.

IF I ever advocated a tier 1 FA, it would be on the o line....or maybe a MLB during the "Hockaloogey" days.  We could have had Alex Mack, extended Zeitler, and picked up a T in the draft or FA, and think where this line would be, versus where it actually is.  All it would have taken was cutting some dead weight, and a little creativity.  This is where I take issue with our FO.....that, and listening to Ebony and Ivory about who to pick up front in the draft.