My takes on our moves this year.
Porter solid player too much guaranteed money.
Did not sign or trade for any significant OL upgrades.
Relying too much on a TE that has been injury prone and done very little, no backup plan in case his history repeats itself which is very possible.
Hate the idea of aquiring a 37 year old Qb for a draft pick a concussed one coming off a bad year to top that off.
Not addressing the oline enough in the draft, Satale is the only real addressing, the rest were late round picks and undrafted free agents(I have a feeling at least two of these free agents make the roster so that is good.)
Took too many chances in the draft with the Qb position, if Beck was thier man we got him by pure luck because we could have easily missed drafting him and even though i think Ginn could be real good would rather have addressed Qb there and still got a good receiver in the second round.
Cut one expensive kicker and replaced him with just as expensive a kicker.
Best move of the year convincing NE to give up so much for Welker.
Change the whole OL around again, just as we were getting some cohesion and decent play from our RT. Amazing after so many were convinced that Alabi was something special despite evidence to the contrary.
I agree with you on a lot of the points here, My biggest headach with our offseason moves is OL, the reshuffling of them makes me nervous. In the last couple of years, this has been the biggest problem with this team. Our OL, not QB, not WR, but OL, it all starts with the OL, the trenches, the start of every decent or negative play. In the Pittsburg opener last year, the blitz was killing that OL, an immobile QB wasn't helped at all by our OL. If the OL is starting over again, as it is, then DC, if healthy, will be better suited to it, than TG, who's not as mobile, he'll be dropped even more than DC if our recent history shows each time we reshuffle the OL. By the end of the season their play starts to pickup, by then we're out of the playoff picture, we've gotten QB's hurt or their confidence is gone by then.
In terms of the draft, I think we did the right thing, getting Quinn at the 9th spot made me nervous, I've been around to see too many burst in that high position with QB's. I like Beck at 40 much better, less money put in that spot, with the chance to have just as productive of a QB. I do hope Quinn does well in the NFL, but I think Heath Shula is written all over him. Maybe not, but I'm glad he's not here with the 9th pick. We couldn't get the top notch OL early, they were taken, starting with Detroit and the Cardinals taking the top 2 I'm sure we had on the board. After that it was either O speed or D Dbs, and I think we did well with the speed of Ginn..he can be a game changer. You just don't get that kind of speed often with pretty good hands.