(09-14-2018, 06:09 AM)Upper Wrote: I think Dave has gone a good job planning for the future, but just because we've drafted some replacements doesn't mean we know if they're good or not. We also still have a bunch more to fill. FS, DE, DT, RG, TE at least...and that's if Bryan, Harrison, and Richardson are all hits.

The bigger worry for me is that we're just now seeing how darn expensive it's going to be to keep Yannick, Ramsey, and Jack. It's going to take ~50M+ to keep all 3 of them IMO. And that may be conservative it could push 60M.

Agreed. So far, Bryan and Harrison have flashed, so I feel pretty optimistic about them. I would like to see Richard a bit more, before I make an educated opinion on him. Yes, we have a lot more holes to fill, but if we are able to find replacements for 2-3 big contract players in each draft, that would go a long way. Salaries are getting way out of hand, no matter how you look at it. Those 3 guys in particular (Ngakoue, Ramsey and Jack) are players we cannot lose though. They are young and have many years of good football ahead of them. Contracts didn't used to bother me, because you could always back load them. Now, players want guaranteed money. We might have to get really creative to keep these guys.

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