(EDIT): Franchise Tag Deadline, and the Tampering Period

[MHS831]

About tanking--that is a fan's perspective only. Athletes and coaches are competitors.  The GM is dangling by a thin rope here. 

If your company wants to earn more money than they did last year, but the way to do it is to lose money next year so they could fire some people and bring in better people, would you not work harder?

 

 

 

[bababoey]

52 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Teams never have trouble finding 90 people to come to camp. The vast majority of them are camp fodder nomads going to whichever team has available space and hopefully a glaring need. The majority of those folks are basically giving their all just to catch on to a special teams spot.

They are not hard to find and their numbers are legion.

Quality free agents are another thing, and this year they won't be coming cheap. Honestly, we should avoid the top end and maybe just pick up a handful of experienced journeyman guys, preferrably ones with coaching attitudes to help out with growing our future. 

But big splashes? Not in the FA market. We're more inline for the great player hanging it up kind of splashes... and we've had that happen already.

You know GVR was one of those camp fodder guys in 2017.  He had been with 3 or 4 teams in like 3 years and bounced around a couple of practice squads as well.  Now there is another thread on here saying that the Jet's want to pay him 8 million a year.  That's crazy money for him but it just goes to show sometimes bottom of the roster guys aren't that bad they just need an opportunity. 

[stbugs]

2 minutes ago, bababoey said:

You know GVR was one of those camp fodder guys in 2017.  He had been with 3 or 4 teams in like 3 years and bounced around a couple of practice squads as well.  Now there is another thread on here saying that the Jet's want to pay him 8 million a year.  That's crazy money for him but it just goes to show sometimes bottom of the roster guys aren't that bad they just need an opportunity. 

His point is that there are tons of guys available. You can find diamonds in the rough, but it’s getting lucky too. Van Roten was a 2012 UDFA. He actually came out of college 2 years before Norwell. I think we are going to have to go hog wild on UDFAs. Marty and team are going to have to put in more work than just analyzing 10 guys for pick 7. Unlike last year where we ignored UDFAs and took those AAFL, or whatever it was called, players.

 

[Navy_football]

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Teams never have trouble finding 90 people to come to camp. The vast majority of them are camp fodder nomads going to whichever team has available space and hopefully a glaring need. The majority of those folks are basically giving their all just to catch on to a special teams spot.

They are not hard to find and their numbers are legion.

Quality free agents are another thing, and this year they won't be coming cheap. Honestly, we should avoid the top end and maybe just pick up a handful of experienced journeyman guys, preferrably ones with coaching attitudes to help out with growing our future. 

But big splashes? Not in the FA market. We're more inline for the great player hanging it up kind of splashes... and we've had that happen already.

That formula took this team to the SuperBowl in 2015. Though Okung (if healthy) is a marked improvement over anything we've had at LT in some time.