The good news is that there is no "rebuild" to queue. I mean seriously, what is there to "re" build? Due to age/money/injury/whatever reasons, we have let some of our better (best?) players walk in the past year or two, or outright cut them. We're playing this year without, what, our top 4 or 5 CBs from last year? Not that all of them were GOOD, but... On the d-line, Alualu is the only starter remaining from the beginning of last season, coupled with the mid-season addition of Babin. Besides Shorts and Blackmon, all our receivers are new to the team. Same at TE behind Lewis, who we don't see play anyway. RB is the same after MJD. It's amazing the amount of turnover this year from last. So looking at all of that, coupled with the expected level of talent and the actual result being seen on the field, there is nothing to "rebuild" and "blow up" after this year. This truly is bottom of the bottom and thus simply a building project.

 

Now, that's not to say that every starter on this team needs to be gone. There's too much youth/inexperience being relied upon all at once and at no point with this amount of such can you expect all to be 1st/2nd-round instant-starter caliber. But there are some flashes out there that you hope will develop as the year progress. Not to say that we will be significantly better come year end, but there are some building blocks around the team. It's just that those blocks have to develop, and other strengths need to be added. I do indeed hope we are more of a player in free agency. We don't have to go sign the biggest names, but actively signing 2-3 starting-caliber players and a handful of known-commodity reliable backups would please me.

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