His'nBeatYour'n
Would I be a Parcells guy?
Most rebuilding process involve trading away some good / high paid players when it all starts. It's called building a new foundation, and when half of you money is tied up in 10+ year veteran players, that's where you run into the trouble Saban did. Instead of trading them off, and taking that big cap hit two years ago, here we are today, still paying them and falling short of the playoffs..
What difference is ther in taking that large cap hit two years ago, as apposed to taking it this year?? The difference is those two players are literally on the verge of retirement now, and next year it will likely be too late to trade them at all....
Does anyone here recall the great Buffalo Bills defense of the 90's, and how not trading those players away when they past their prome hurt them in the long run??? Well just for arguments' sake, that's the same direction we're heading right now if we continue to rely on them being our only hope on defense....
People around here act like we can't survive without them....when in reality we can't survive with them....
PHINZ RULE!!!!
So you would rather trade away the "on the verge of retirement" Defensive MVP in exchange for draft picks that likely would never be in the MVP running? The draft is a crap shoot. Do you have an example of the successful team that traded away their aging stars in order to build for the future, and succeeded?