patsfanfromoversea
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in this case yeahWhy not? They structured an 11 mill per year 3 year deal with only 15% of the hit in year 1. That is textbook maximizing this years cap by taking advantage of excess future cap available
but overall they resigned their own guys and replaced the losses with almost the same tier players
--> ergo this is not an improvement, maybe Juju is a slight improvement but overall the offense and defense have not got better so far and quit some top players are gone
Changes to last season:
QB: same
RB: Harris out (so far), Robinson in --> equal
TE: Smith out, 0 in --> worse depth -->
WR: Meyers out; Juju in --> slight improvement
OL: Reiff, Anderson in + resign own guys; Wynn out --> maybe improvement, especially availability but not so much quality
DL: same
LB: same --> needs still existing
DB: McCourty out --> need a big boundary corner and FS
so overall we still need:
- blocking TE
- WR
- starting OT (i can see a day 1/2 pick to compete)
- FS
- starting LB with speed, agility, coverage skills
- Edge depth
- IOL depth
--> BB has made only 1 move for a longterm deal with future cap hits higher as you said (because we needed to replace Meyers and even with JuJu still need a WR)
--> so my conclusion: we are not building a winning team because last year we saw several important areas (weapons, QB play, O-Line) are not good enough to compete with top teams
of course everything i said is as it stands today and i know it's very early and a lot of moves will/should come
but you hardly can make this statement as of today