(03-06-2024, 09:09 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(03-06-2024, 07:12 AM)Hurricane Wrote: I just can't fathom giving up a 3rd round pick for a guy for one year. He didn't have the best of year, but he had a way better year than the majority of our WR's from the past. In my eyes, the only way giving up a 3rd and walking away from the player after year one, is he was just bad and didn't produce. In this case, he did produce. Yes he had some drops, ran some wrong routes. But we are talking about a guy that has been out of football for a few years.

I'm not clamoring he needs a big contract, but the franchise tag is perfect for him. Gives him another year to prove what he can do.

Instead we give it to Allen, someone who has proved he can play the part.

This is what good teams do. They move on from guys before they overpay.

What can we do with 15-20M if we move on? We saw what happened when we had him and no help up front.

Nobody is saying he isn't good, or that we'll miss his production. But if we have to gut the roster even more just to keep him around, is it really worth it?

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(03-06-2024, 07:57 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: How long does it take to knock the rust off a period of inactivity? I keep seeing references to Ridley’s time out of the league as an excuse. I’m not knocking the people who are saying it, I’m just genuinely curious about how long it takes to be proficient after one entire offseason and season to get back into game mode. It’s not like he’s learning something for the first time.

I saw rust maybe a few weeks into the season. The rest of the way, it was just we were incapable of running a realistic offense because our line was abhorrent.

We're not a good team. Not implying you're saying we're a good team, but, this team has a lot of work to do in a short amount of time this off season to get itself out of the middle of the road teams. Good teams don't start off 8 - 3 and then proceed to collapse and finish 9 - 8. 

I think people are concerned about having cap space for a front office that has shown for the past three years that they're hit or miss with finding adequate talent, upgrades and we're now entering year three of complaining about the same three issues again.

1. No interior presence on defense. 
2. No interior presence or push on offense. 
3. No "Alpha" or "X" type receiver on the outside for this offense. 

Also, need to put definitions or parameters around the term "gutting" when it comes to this roster. They're hovering around $50M in cap space, they could maybe make the next most logical choice, and that's outright cut Cam Robinson to come up with the $17.5M to maybe fork over towards Ridley, but, due to said incompetence above? We don't have a reliable or confident answer for Cam Robinson.

Because, if it was Walker Little? Cam's sorry, overpaid [BLEEP] is already off the roster by now, so, there's that. I think what bothers most of us, like Hurricane is stating, is that, we essentially pissed away a 3rd RD pick on a team that we're currently seeing a little bit of "gutting" to make room for massive contract's that are due more than likely at the end of this year, going into 2025, etc. 

The needle isn't moving enough in the right direction, we're right there in the middle, and with this many holes and concerns, again, THE SAME HOLES AND CONCERNS we've been griping about for now three years in a row? This team feels like it's just a really good, smelly, strong Mayport gust of wind from falling down to being a 6 - 11 team or worse. 

I know, I know, "But..but..but..Caldrac...C'mon man.... it's not NEARLY as bad as it was X amount of years ago". Yes, you're right. I agree. But, it's damn near close to being a brief fart in the wind with blundered opportunities. We're not capitalizing enough. Otherwise we're not having this conversation or debate now. 

Cheers though!

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