good list. sadly they cannot do all of these things giving the cap situation. interesting you left out his #4, which is interesting because when you pay a QB $50mm a year, you get even fewer things:
#4) Don’t extend Tua Tagovailoa to a mega-quarterback deal and get him competition. He’s good. Can he be great? He’s made nice steps the past two years. Is another in him? The NFL’s models to win big are a great, expensive quarterback or a cheaper, good quarterback. Which one is Tagovailoa? And spare the talk of a “controversy” or “hurt feelings.” These are all big boys. Ask this: What team would pay him in the area of five-years, $255-million (with $179 million guaranteed) like Jalen Hurts got in Philadelphia after going to the Super Bowl last season. You make that commitment, he better be great.
RONG.
We certainly can.
The questions are really very simple, just hard to swallow!
Are we willing to "bite the bullet" on Free Agency and quit bringing in good but older players on the decline?
Are we willing to let go of some of our older, but better and more expensive players go?
Are we going to quit using up our draft selections to support high priced Free Agents?
Consider this, we have built up our coaching staff significantly over the last two years, so we should be in a position to be able to use newly drafted players and signed UDFA's with better results than in the past.
As a bonus,
getting a larger number of draft selections over time may be the real answer to our special team's situation. The special teams' players should be where we develop the backups for our first line of backup players.
I'm beginning to suspect part of our Special Teams problem may be due to the personnel available to the Special Teams' coaching staff, more than it is a problem with coaching.
We have shown over the last two years that we are willing to bring in new and better coaching talent, so why haven't we done that to address our Special Teams' issues?
The FO probably is fully aware of this and knows the problem is the players; but went "overboard" focusing on the Offense and Defense.
When I look at it this way, the reason Special Teams is doing poorly seems to fall into place.
When I add into that the fact that with our new HC is going into his third year, I see the possibility that he made Special Teams' a coaching "afterthought", while he focused on the Offense and game calling and being less involved in dealing with the Defense.
Where does that leave Special Teams? At the bottom of the barrel.
This also makes a lot of sense when I look at the type of players we have brought in and developed for the Offense and the Defense over the last two years.
If I related this to cooking a spaghetti dinner I would say:
Too much spice!
Real good sauce, but not nearly enough sauce!
Too much spaghetti!
Not enough side dishes!
I've got to stop now.
I'm getting hungry. - LOL
