Shade 53

[SunsetBengal]

(08-31-2015, 08:26 PM)EatonFan Wrote: Just a point:  It's actually somewhat of a detriment going into this season with only one real injury (Wright) to our starters.  Why?  Because when we cut to 53 we have to let go a lot of talent.  If we have a few injuries to some better talent whom we put on IR, that gives us a pool of great talent NEXT year.  A bit upside-down, but a healthy group entering the season actually hurts us a bit down the road.  Plus it gives the head office less leverage to work with if say Williams would have gotten hurt and put on IR and Geno's contract was coming up.  We have a lot of free agents and having that reserve is a bit of a relief.  We won't have much of that next year.

I'd still rather have a fully healthy group though and see what we can do THIS year firing on all cylinders!

On the bright side, we will be supplying the bottom feeding teams with some unexpected talent.  As opposed to a few years back, when we were the hopeful beneficiaries of that unexpected talent getting cut..