I get that you want it NOW. Me too, ma brotha. Me too. It's not just as simple as you make it out to be.
Do you at least understand that about you, that you make it appear so easy? Please tell me you can look in the mirror and see that, that you make it seem so easy.
It is simple. You cut Tannehill, not trade, and you get additional 5 million cap space. Now you ave 32 mil instead of 27 mil. You keep 10 mil for rookies. You are left with 22 mil instead of 17 mil.
In this draft you will be hard pressed to find 34OLBs better than Justin Houston or Jamie Collins. They are proven, and first round types will not be available to us. They may need to build up strength, get coached up, and maybe 2 year projects.
When you look at that, it is easy. Go sign proven 34OLBs to add to Charles Harris and Quinn who can play DE for versatility and there is your edge game, year 1 of the rebuild!! It's easy.
But it is not easy when like Grier you are scrapping the team and the holes are 5 years in waiting! Then it is not easy.
It is easy to get the QB. There are three in this draft. You can trade up, it takes about 3000 points to get to the Niners spot or less to get to the Jets spot. The Jets would love to have an OT. It takes 2 firsts (2000 pts) a second (500 pts) and player like Minkah or Tunsil. And they can even keep this year's second round pick.
You get a QB and you can roll, evaluate, plan, day 1.
But it's hard when you do not know, and you want a particular quarterback called Tua, 6002, and you can't sleep at night thinking what if it does not happen that you have a #1 pick next year. Then it is hard, it is hard when you're dumb. and unsure.
It is easy. In addition to that veteran pass rush we need 2-3 MAIN COGs on defense. We don't need 5 years of drafting! We need a Fletcher Cox in the middle.
Get Renell Wren in the second round.
We need a key corner. Go get David Long in the draft, in the third round! That's a key cog.
They can get tackles in the draft. I have a full thread in the draft forum. It's easy to get going day 1.
It's not easy when you are not doing anything, when you have a 5 year waiting plan. Wait and see. Rolling dice, throwing money away. It's not easy.