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If you were Bill, the first 3 things you would do this offseason are...?


1 trade my first pick down into round 2 for another 7th in 2022.
2 trade back up into round 1.
3 draft a TE.
 
1. Do nothing
2. Do nothing
3. Start licking your lips at about 11:59pm on the night of March 13th, the eve of free agency.

4. Don't go overboard in FA
5. Wait for June cuts of veterans

Spend as much of that cap money as you possibly can in a year when everyone else will be jettisoning players. Buy up as many as you possibly can.
 
1. Stop trying to prove you’re smarter than everyone else and understand it hurts the team more than helps it.
2. Focus on defense. You turned around the 2002 mess in one offseason so it’s doable and this defense at least has a few good pieces to it.
3. Get a bridge and a young QB prospect to work with. Finding the heir to Brady isn’t done overnight and admit the lottery ticket you have (Stidham) is not a winner.
 
1) Trade up for franchise QB

2) Sign one (or two) second tier WRs

3) Sign Hunter Henry

Use remaining cap space to re-sign players and go BPA in the front seven. I'm not sure people realize the team will have close to 80 million in cap space once Cannon, Edelman & Hightower are released or retired.
Yup, this is the game plan. Find a QB, preferably through the draft, and spend to surround him with weapons. Everything else is secondary, this isn't 1983 anymore.
 
1. Target in FA: Hunter Henry, Chris Godwin, and Curtis Samuel. Sign. Fitzmagic as a bridge qb
2. Draft Mac Jones or Kyle Trask. Then draft defense
3. Fire Mcdaniels
 
1. Fix the QB situation
2. Get a fatty to anchor the DL (depending on their opinion of Davis) and seek upgrades pretty much everywhere in the front seven. Players like Wise should not be seeing significant time going forward.
3. WR/TE improvements. Please no more Ryan Izzo. Hunter Henry would be nice.
 
My plan would be:

1. Add at least one each of a veteran solid WR and TE. They don't have to be Moss or Gronk but you could use a professional like Alge Crumpler in 2010 or Brandon LaFell in 2014. You just need consistency.

2. Add some front 7 depth particularly at the line and plan to draft a DE or DT high.

3. Draft a QB high. If it means you had to reach a little bit then reach. I don't wanna see us picking at 11-14 with Trask or Wilson on the board and then decide to go DE or DT hoping they'll last til our 2nd round pick. If you miss, well oh well try again next year. But I don't wanna see this team taking that position lightly in a QB deep class. Be aggressive and get your guy asap
 
Re veteran WR or TE........I agree 100% , but not from the dollar shop or reject pile. We may have succeeded in the past with these type of projects but hopefully not in 2021
 
You have to figure out the QB situation first. There is no answer in the draft, unless somehow you can pry Lawrence away from Jacksonville.

Free Agents, meh: Brissett, maybe.

Thinking outside the box, if SF wants to move away from Garapollo, I think BB would jump on that. It sickens me to think about all the draft capital wasted on QBs over the last 20 years, and when they finally needed a QB, they had nothing.

Unless Newton is hurt, he is toast. Stidham is not the answer.

I would hope that Kyle Pitts drops to 14 and the Pats can grab him there. I would then go hard after Allen Robinson in Free Agency.

The defense needs some serious help, but none of that matters if they can't find a serviceable QB.
 
1. Let Caserio ride off into the sunset and replace him with a new voice in the war room.

2. Settle both the QB and NT (a true NT) positions via the draft.

3. Use the cap space to fix the WR position and TE position.
Just a question. Anyone know what the problem is with Snacks Harrison? Not necessarily advocating for him, but he would normally be a consideration but he seems to have fallen off the radar scope. Couldn't handle success? Not confident about the draft as a QB solution. Will your boy Trask last until our 2nd round? Really only saw him in the Alabama game with mixed reviews from wow to what! Sounds like our kind of QB, big, immobile.
 
1. Draft a QB with your first pick. In fact see if you can get a reasonable trade up.

2. Evaluate whether defensive line or WR will be more abundant in free agency. Use your second pick to draft whichever group you think you can’t solve in free agency.

3. Give a bag of money to Hunter Henry and whoever the best WR/DL is in free agency.

4. Try to draft a lineman or find one in free agency. Fill out holes with more role players.

5. Sign JC Jackson and trade Gilmore.
 
1. Fix QB by paying for a legit FA (Dalton or Stafford could win here), AND trading up to draft Wilson at #7-ish
2. Pay for a legit playmaking #1TE (not a re-tread 30+ year old slowpoke) & #1WR that you WILL feed (no prima donna's)
3. Keep your OL, and draft a difference maker on the DL/DE.
I don’t see Stafford and Dalton “winning here” with current situation. Dalton couldn’t win much in Dallas and he had great WR.....Stafford is conditioned to lose after years in Detroit.....Don’t like either of them even in gap....
 


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