(01-04-2022, 05:19 PM)CanDoBetter Wrote: Obviously not.

There are a few players we can't get rid of either because they are rookies that showed promise or are good enough to have to stay so we don't create even more holes:

Lawrence
J Robinson(he needs to get a chance to come back from injury)
Etienne
Jones
Treadwell
Agnew
Little
Norwell(please draft his long term replacement)
Linder(please draft his long term replacement)
Allen
Griffin
Campbell
Cisco

Then there's a few players we should get rid of:

Chaisson
Jack(unless we go back to a 4-3)
Taylor

Consider tagging:

Chark

Anyone not named I'm not bothered either way. Give them a chance to compete for a roster spot next year or cut them loose. It probably won't matter.

I think there's a significant difference between "core" and "solid player", though. I can't consider JRob part of the core until we know for sure he's going to recover. I don't consider a street FA who's barely contributed (Treadwell) to be a block around which we build the team. You're not going to purge the entire roster in any season, as the replacement cost of many guys is too much for a complete cleanse. Those solid players continue to contribute, but assuming we find a top WR prospect in the darft (or FA), someone like Treadwell is likely back on the street.

May be a difference of opinion, but to me "core" is the guys that shape the team identity, that you would be scrambling if they were lost or traded, or that you've invested heavily to put them in position to become a part of the core. When I think of cores, I always think of the three-headed monster that were the 90's Cowboys - Aikman, Smith, Irvin. They had a bunch of other talent around them, but all the other pieces, excepting very few were able to shuffle in and out of the rosters from year to year and they maintained that group, and continued to win no matter who was playing at the other spots.

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