(04-04-2022, 10:56 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(04-04-2022, 08:35 PM)Bullseye Wrote: (emphasis added)

Thanks to you and everyone else for your replies.

As for #6, the portion in bold is interesting.  Considering how excited Khan was about the UM hire, why wouldn't he spend more last year like he did this year?  I guess it was a blessing in disguise he didn't given how big of a melt down UM had.

Certainly no need to apologize for any text wall.

Although he obviously had to approve it, I personally don't see too much evidence to suggest that the change in spending this year was driven by Khan.  I think it would have happened if Meyer had returned.  Maybe they would have targeted some different players, but I thought they would be more aggressive in free agency this year.  General Managers often take a different approach in year one of a rebuild versus year two.  I think Baalke/Meyer knew that they needed more than one off season and one draft to turn this team around.  They were also going to be using a rookie quarterback in 2021 and knew that weren't going to be competitive until at least 2022.  As such, they made the strategic long term decision to roll over a significant portion of the available cap space and conduct the major free agency spending in 2022.