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Caldrac · 02-17-2023, 08:41 AM

(02-16-2023, 08:15 PM)Newton Wrote: This team spent a lot on free agency last year. There are clearly some limits with the salary cap regarding how much we can spend this off-season. However, we still have a relatively cheap quarterback situation. Would you go all in, try to restructure contracts, and continue adding talent to make a Super Bowl push next year, or would you take the strategy of being more conservative to play long game? The long game would mean trying to keep the cap balanced to field competitive team over the next 5 to 10 years?

I would say play it conservatively in 2023. Build up through the draft. Look to find replacements now to lessen the burden of backfilling in 2024 and beyond. The goal should be moving money around to maintain a decent core of talent around Lawrence offensively through 2025.

Which I think they're in position of being able to do so. I think we should let 2023 ride out with Pederson and Lawrence together in year two. See if the execution is better, etc. The odds of them being in an AFC Championship game are high already IMHO. Just based on year one.

Now, if they end up losing to a team like the Bengals, Chiefs or Bills in the play-off's after getting one or two wins into the series? That's when I start looking at an immediate difference maker to break the bank with and push the cap to it's max. My personal feeling, is that, offensively we'll be in good shape.

Defensively? That's where my concern primarily rests. We may need a big time CB or EDGE rusher at some point if Walker doesn't turn out fast enough and Allen is gone after this year after being abysmal or lighting it up in 2023. It'll be interesting for sure.

But, again, my main goal right now is building for the future by stockpiling talent to develop along slowly in 2023/2024. Need to bolster the interior line play on both sides IMHO, just based on age, injury history and lack of talent there in general. Then you expand outwards from there and look for rotational guys to work in as rookies at other key positions.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."