Hickey is off to a great start so far

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I think him and our cap guru are off to a great start.

For starters Paul Soliai signs 5-year, $33M deal with the Falcons. So what does Hickey do? He goes out and gets Earl Mitchell, who is the top DT available, and signs him for less money than Soliai got at $16 million for 4 years that includes $9 million guaranteed. HUGE SAVINGS! :420:

Then we turn around and get the franchise LT we should have had last year, thanks Ireland. Yes we probably over spend a little for him, when compared to the money Monroe got (who is younger but not the player Albert is) but it is worth it to get a Pro Bowl LT.

We had a little more than $33 million going into the day available. Not sure what the yearly breakdowns are on the deals we got accomplished today, along with the $3.5 million deal we inked yesterday with Delmas.

That combined with the key signing of Grimes, and the sweet deal there, is doing nothing but putting more faith and trust into what Hickey and Aponte can do together.

Am I all in? DAMN RIGHT I AM ALL IN with these signings so far.

I would figure we probably have about 2 more big moves we can make in FA + the players we need to resign & our draft picks.

LMFAO I read this post every off season, the last 6 were with Ireland now lets start with Hickey.....all I read was how great the FA pick ups were and I joined in most of the kudos tose years and Ireland would sign a guy we would love but come Sunday the guy could never match his contract and by December we were calling Ireland a bum....how about we wait to the end of the season and see how well he did then.....