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In Hindsight....

t96

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Brought on by this player winning AFC defensive player of the week for this past week....

 

Eric Weddle would've been a massive signing and probably the biggest addition our team could've used last year and this year. We don't know exactly what happened but there was supposedly mutual interest at the time. He wound up getting 4 years $26M. Would've been well worth it for a guy who has 12 takeaways last year and this year so far... We have 11 all year. Not sure there's a player we missed out on that would've been a more important addition than Weddle. Playing at a first team all pro level in Baltimore and would've been huge to have back there helping out the young corners, and Rivera coached him before as well. For that value missing out on him is even way worse than letting Josh go. Damn I wish we signed him.

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3 minutes ago, CarolinaSamurai said:

One word.....Gettleman....that's why we're stuck with geriatrics at safety this year. 

yeah, this dude had a tedency to go for certain types of positions or players multiple times in one draft and not draft at a good enough variety of positions. If you do that multiple years, its going to make certain position groups on your roster old and not as talented as others and leave you with glaring weaknesses if you have bad luck with your free agents.

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Hell , in hindsight we could have had Hunter Henry, Kareem Hunt, Tarik Cohen all on the same team. 

In terms of free agents , you should know better than this organization pretty much never gives lucrative contracts to high profile free agents. Either we go bargain bin or we shell out for players that haven't even been good in the last several seasons (M.Kalil) . There's a lot of things this organization has done that don't make much sense.

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1 hour ago, Jimmy said:

Isn't everything in hindsight really? 

Now if anybody has some foresight that'd be great. Tag a head coach if you're able.

I've got foresight... Sign Josh back when the Skins release him this offseason.

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1 hour ago, Jimmy said:

Isn't everything in hindsight really? 

Now if anybody has some foresight that'd be great. Tag a head coach if you're able.

and for what it's worth, since I've been on here I've shut down pretty much all potential FA's that people wanted here, some that turned out well some that didn't. I'm kind of like DG and the Packers in that I don't believe much in shelling out a lot of money for big name FAs. However, Weddle was one of the guys I was extremely behind going after even at the price he got from the Ravens or more even. I was a huge proponent of signing Weddle. Not really for any other possible FA signings, although I did like Whitworth this year---none of the other OTs though that many here wanted and some have worked out well for the teams that signed them.

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40 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

and for what it's worth, since I've been on here I've shut down pretty much all potential FA's that people wanted here, some that turned out well some that didn't. I'm kind of like DG and the Packers in that I don't believe much in shelling out a lot of money for big name FAs. However, Weddle was one of the guys I was extremely behind going after even at the price he got from the Ravens or more even. I was a huge proponent of signing Weddle. Not really for any other possible FA signings, although I did like Whitworth this year---none of the other OTs though that many here wanted and some have worked out well for the teams that signed them.

Safety is one of the few positions that usually aren't directly affected by the type of system that gets the player production. In other words, safety is a position you can safely assume the player won't struggle going to and from different systems or a different system won't directly affect production.

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3 hours ago, Pantha-kun said:

We're old at saftey and they've tried using bargain bin free agents for too long . We really could use a safety and a DE in the 2018 draft 

GMs don't dictate defensive or offensive philosophy. Coaches do.

The only exceptions to that are teams with established systems like the Steelers.

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