ill reply my thoughts to all 10 as it goes....
1....hire the right man...8 million threads already on this site, hell 4 million of them were before gase was even fired. you want to go all in tanking, **** looking for the right man. if we are going to be a **** franchise this year and we know it and we are gunning for a high pick. I say screw it. I don't see a top of the line world beater recruit of a HC wanting to come to a franchise in cap hell and total disarray with a middle of the pack pick. I say Ross brings Rizzi into his office and says, you get head coach for a year, we expect nothing out of you, we are gunning for a home run headcoach in 2020. We respect what you do as ST coordinator and Asst HC, but this is a 1 year deal. If somehow you excel with **** then you will be a priority candidate for 2020 but we're really going to give you nothing to work with this year. so pretty much make rizzi interim coach for 2019. 2020 when more than likely we have a top 5 pick, and and hopefully some salary room freed up, would that not look more enticing to a top HC. he would get freedom to draft HIS QB and have cap room. if you want to tank I say you don't waste a potential lifelong coaches first year doing it, a tank year is not a rebuilding year. complete rebuilding is what you do after you pretty much hit rock bottom. if you don't think there wont be harbaughs on the list, or whoever KC's new OC is, or whoever Balts DC is that excel cause of their talent then you're out of your mind.
2....I love RT17, always supported him, but ill admit if we are going to do a complete 180 on the franchise then its his time to go, ill even fully root for him on whatever team he goes to as long as it doesn't affect the fins in anyway. I say take the full cap hit in 2019. screw desiginating a June 1st cut and taking the hit over 2 years. remember we are making the franchise ripe and juicy for our dream HC in 2020. no coaches available are dream head coaches for me, some great coordinators but HC's im not in love with. pick up a cheap stop gap one year QB and let him, Falk, and UDFA go at it. we're not trying to go lateral with the position in this total rebuild mode. but only 1 year contract though, this entire system is me thinking complete rebuild. Teddy is going to get us a RT type year, maybe slightly less since we're destroying team.
3...Lock them both up, X and LT, we're freeing up a lot of cap room for 2020 so this isn't going to be a big hit. we have to make sure that the job is enticing to our 2020 HC and we cant just rely on cap space and his choice of a top QB being a complete pitch. you have elite talent at cornerstone positions locked up helps.
4...bye over priced older players, except two on short term deals. cam wake can be welcomed back for a year, his play isn't going to effect our w/l's. go ahead and let him get his 100th sack as a member of the dolphins. he will be off the books in 2020. is he going to want to waste his latter years playing on a rebuilding squad though. I wouldn't even be opposed to saying, we'll resign you, let you get your 100th sack in Miami, then before the deadline find a contender that wants you. that would be fair deal to all, he celebrates his 100th here and still gets a chance to see the playoffs. in my world Rizzi is headcoach, so I say Denney gets another year. 500K isn't that big of a deal with the salary cap. maybe we start putting a bug in denneys ear to see how he feels about coaching that way at some point we so move on to a minimum wage LS that can maybe play more than 1 position.. branch and quin can be gone, I don't think any of quins contract is guaranteed for next year but I could be incorrect. if we have to bring back one, I guess branch is a little cheaper, we cant field a team of all UDFA's or super cheap FA's. I def want to bring back sitton though, we need to see if he can stay healthy for a year and still play at a probowl type level. Amendola showed he can stay healty and might be at least a realiable target for Falk to build up some confidence with, plus he comes off the books in 2020 anyways, love hayes but he cant stay healty. if he'll sign a 1 year cheapo deal with incentives then sure bring him back, I don't want to see us lose every game 100 to 0
5.. agree with, but don't know how much faith I have in grier finding under the radar free agent talent. definitely no big spending. Wilson was a good pickup and would've been top value if healthy, besides that I cant remember when the last time we had a solid FA pickup that benefitted us. I guess maybe Gore but he didn't benefit the future of the team, just gase's win now at all cost attempt
6..toughness to the line, I said in chat after one of the last weeks of the season, at this point I don't give a **** if the fins invest almost every pick on both O and D line. I would still honestly be interested to see what I Asaita could do in a system outside of Gases. I really liked him on draft day and is he not playing cause he sucks and cant pass block or because he doesn't pass block like gase wanted? J James is soft and inconsistent, I wouldn't break the bank for him either, C is a def need along with all 4 DL positions
7...we need a decent CB to go across from X bad, get mccains ass back in the slot of MF to safety, this might have to be leveraged in the draft or thru a cheap pickup (which means maybe having to go a cheap lineman in FA and sacrificing a draft slot) .i don't want a bargain basement super cheap corner but we don't need to spend top dollar if its FA. we don't know what the mind set of our HC in 2020 is going to be, 2019 is just a bunch of make shift players slotted into positions.
8....I said earlier James is soft and inconsistent. but could this also be because his maturity level is causing him to be one of the millionaires to be half assing his job. that's the 8-10 million dollar question. let him test his market, if its reasonable and he allows us to match it and we just think he had maturity issues that can be corrected, then cool, match it. if he gets over priced for his actual worth, then well **** him and his burner account
9...I really don't see how you can overly coach discipline. ive always been under the impression that if you have it you have it. if a 10 year vet is making stupid mistakes after 10 years im sure he's been doing it his entire career. if a 5 year guy has his mind straight and has like 1 presnap penalty a year then he's prob been disciplined all his life. I think some things are coachable like how LT always seems to be rocking back a little before the snap to get a head start (luckily its rarely called) but jumping on a snap count is not coaching. you want a disciplined team, find disciplined players. Landry acted the fool in Cleveland too with an entirely different coaching staff. I'm not going to say never, but I really don't see Landry being on a Bill B squad, and before you mention Gordon, Gordons discipline was more of an issue off the field than on the field, and it come back to bite him on the ass, but didn't notive Gordon do too much stupid on the field (granted I don't really watch their games)
10....stick with the plan, hmmmm, I say griers vision should saldy be something like above even tho it will suck bad in 2019 and possibly 2020. I don't think the GM should have as much of a vision for the team as support the HC's vision of the team. in fact if it takes giving the new HC full GM control in 2020 if he's a strong enough candidate then grier can move to some opperations bullshit position. Do you want Grier to have a vision of a team with a mobile QB and speed WR's with a big physical defense, and then he goes out in 2020 and the best coach available is one that wants to build a team around a pocket QB and WC offense and that's how hes drafted, and he hires a DC that loves the fast atheletic defensive opposed to the bruisers. who's vision really works there?
so in other words, putting a lot of effort into an article that few will read. the team I built in those 10 questions is going to sadly suck in 2019, make me question renewing sunday ticket cause we will be garbage. but we are going to have a chance to have a top 2 QB in 2020 and a load of cap space to try to bait whatever HC we can get and allow him full control of his own personal vision and a chance to remove and fill slots with a round peg in a round hole
