(03-19-2018, 01:40 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote:

(03-19-2018, 01:08 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Absolutely they didn't scramble. 

They may have chosen players of dubious skill level or injury history. They definitely over-paid. 
But scramble?  

Nah. If you think this front office didn't spend weeks drawing up contingency plans for those spots prior to the tampering period, you are kidding yourself. There are several people under the employ of the team whose jobs are to do exactly that.  
No one scrambled. The F.O. just clearly has more confidence in these two free agents than many of the team's fans have in them.

They did. The contingency plan isn't lets just go ahead and hand out the two worst deals of the FA period to two unproven players that have no competition for their services. Even if the FO believes they can be pro bowl players, you don't have to pay them as such when their body of work suggests they should be on minimum deals. They saw plan B and C probably get signed by another team and needed to make a move. I love how Caldwell works believe me, but these deals don't seem very Caldwell like. Not at all. It further makes me believe they went ahead and just made these deals to fill the holes because they have a very specific plan in the draft. One that they don't want to include CB and WR.