I don't really look at that because it will be short lived... He won't be in a year or two... He may not even be in the top 10 over that time... He just happens to be one of the first FA good kickers that had their contract ending...
Not against per say, just that it's an example of how cap space evaporates.
Or depressed. To think they could sign a top notch DL in Payne for what it cost for marginal QB and decide to go with the marginal QB. That's a major downer, huge mistake. It will be difficult not to say "I told you so" when Geno plays his normal mediocre self next season. I can only hope and pray that is not how things go, rather they use their cap space to improve where needed, I mention Payne but I'm sure there are others that could be of good value, just not at QB because the market for QB is so inflated it's not where you want find a starting QB. The draft is where you want to look for a QB of the future, have that cap advantage to build the rest of the roster. We have seen this formula ( rookie QB and cap space to add to roster everywhere else) play out well in the past and it's a good formula if executed by a good franchise, doesn't work so well for badly run teams.
Drafting a QB early in rnd 1 sets your franchise back for ~5 years if you miss. You end up toiling with that player for at least 2 or 3 seasons to hope they turn the corner, then you're reset back to square 1 and start the clock over if they fail. Your team is undoubtedly terrible along the way because of how important that position is. That part of it seems to be hand waved by the "don't sign Geno no matter what" camp. Some people here (particularly Harold) carry on as if all risk is created equal. If it's a risk to sign Geno and also a risk to draft a QB, then it must be a wash!
i see signing geno and building draft capital for next year as the best approach. that way if he does regress bigly we havent blown our load, we can still trade into a spot where we can draft a QB that is better than all the ones in this years draft.
And if you pay a QB who doesn't work out, you only lose out on some money. I think we can all remember paying Matt Flynn a decent chunk of change for the time and then never starting him in a game. Teams are much more inclined to stick by a drafted player because they had to have had that full belief in them to take them so high in the daft. If Geno is re-signed but doesn't play up to it, at least we still will have used the 1.5 on a very talent player. And just like we have found every single successful starting QB in our franchise history, we can find a QB w/o blowing the top pick.
I dont disagree at all. they need to hedge their bets though, and getting more picks next year that they can parlay into a top 3ish pick for a QB is what they need to do.
Yeah, if we have to play SF twice and @ KC in every block of 5 games, Geno probably has a tough row to hoe. I think anyone would. It happened to be that way at the end of the season, and some are suffering from some recency bias. We need to improve the D to help make Geno's life a bit easier in those tougher games, and it starts up front.
Yes see the 49ers who traded away a ton of draft capitol to move up to grab a QB who hasn't worked out and yet here the 49ers are SB contenders without that highly drafted QB.
Did I say it didn't hurt them ? No I didn't, I said here they are SB contenders, which they are. They'll be contenders next season also. The point being is blowing a high pick on a QB isn't some death toll for a team.
We're probably going to release, Q. Williams, Harris, Ford, which would save us 21 million right there... Carroll in his post game press conference pretty much said in a nut shell that the guys up front didn't/weren't getting the job done.. I'm assume we'll see an overhaul at the DT position... If that will be the case, then I'd assume they'd utilize that money for a guy like, Payne...
Ford is a FA so no savings, Harris will save a hair less then 9 million. not sure who Q. Williams is , did you mean Diggs who would save almost 10 million? Remember you have to replace them with players who also cost money and only so many draft picks if your looking to save money, to upgrade via FA could be expensive ( I assume you don't want to down grade ).
Q Jefferson I meant... Brock Huard had mentioned that we'd save 9 million with Ford moving on... I had just assumed he was a cut candidate... Yeah, I was thinking about Diggs...
