I haven't seen the schedule yet, but I hope Miami starts with the "easier" portion. With Chubb and Phillips, there's a chance neither are ready when the season starts. The offense will have to be much better. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
It's just hard to see us take a step forward next year.
I know its not something anyone wants to hear so I'm sorry in advance if your reading this and think everything is gonna be okay next year.
But damn guys, alot of key starters are leaving, we don't have much cap space and we don't have much draft capitol. Bills will still be the Bills, the Jets might be better with Rodgers, I doubt they will be much better but they will be better. Prob 8-9 kind of team. The Pats are reverting back to the Patriots of the 70s, awful and hopelessly going nowhere fast.
I kinda look at next year and see our high water mark as making the playoffs and losing again in the WC round. And the floor.... I dont even wanna think about the floor for next year, it's a dark place full of flames and stuff exploding.
From where we are today, trying to envision a roster capable of winning next year's Superbowl is no easy task.
We're thin at almost every position. A large chunk of next year's roster will be made up of UDFAs or FAs taking close to if not at league minimum.
We will need previous draft picks like Tindall and Smith to take huge steps and become serious players if we have any hope for next seasons. Especially Smith, we invested so much in DBs that have failed in the draft we need Smith to hit in a huge way.
We have to use the little cap space we do have very wisely. I'd put it all in Oline help, we are awful at drafting Oline and having them contribute right away.... well they contribute to us losing games right away but that's about it.
I know this isn't Madden but I want a Madden type of Draft with just a ridiculous number of trade downs. I'd try to trade out of the 1st for a 2nd and a 2025 1st. Then with one of the two 2nd rounders trade back and get a 3rd and 5th or something like that. Then sprinkle in more trade downs until we double the number of picks we have in this draft. Just load up on 5th 6th and 7th rounders and hope some of them hit. Grier has done well with picks late in the draft, I have hope we could end up with 4 to 5 starters with this draft approach. They may not be TJ Watt type talents bur we need starters and depth more than about any team in the NFL.
For the love of God fix the kicking game, A new Punter is an absolute must, our Punter this year was cat turds. Sanders is awful, I hate him but I think we're stuck w him bc of his contract so whatever.
Fix the damn running game, draft another back or get a cheap FA who's undervalued and get us some depth on the oline and make the running game a huge saftey net for this offense. I want a TE but I think this part is more important. This system/scheme is currently great at making it to superbowls and losing them, looking at you 49ers. They didn't run the ball enough against KC, they prob woulda lost anyway bc Mahomes is an alien but you see my point. We need a more constant running attack.
Get a TE. Use one of my 10 draft picks I just acquired by trading down 7 times and find a Diamond in the rough TE prospect. *This plan is a total and complete pipe dream but it's my plan and for my plan to work we need to find this guy.
The defense is currently in the ICU. Our dline is a total disaster, Phillips and Chubb both most likley won't be ready for the start of the season. We might lose AVG to FA. We are losing Wilkins to FA. That bust of a DT is leaving, I can't think of his name but Flores drafted him I'm sure... Davis that's his name, that disappointing motha *******. This is the part of my plan that starts getting hard to see a good outcome. We need to find cheap Vets, prob coming off an injury and maybe a draft pick or two to hopefully bandaid this unit going into next year.
The LBs all stink becides Long and AVG, hopefully Tindall develops and we draft another one who's a future HOF talent. *pipe dream
The secondary...... F*** the secondary, they get nothing, we have invested so much into this unit, the guys we have on the PS and riding the bench have to develop for this plan to work. We simply don't have resources to give this unit anything else this offseaon. They take up 40% of our cap already, multiple draft picks, it's just gross. What we have spent on this unit we should have the #1 passing defense and it shouldn't be close. We finally have to address other areas than the secondary. For fun go look at how much the Chiefs spent on their secondary to win this year's superbowl, it will make you sick.
