Quote:Caldwell will find a way to screw it up. that's his track record so far. until he proves otherwise 

Very negative as usual but I do not fault you for it. I am not an expert in the cap numbers and never claimed to be,

however we have never spent up to the cap, nor aggressively went after top FA.

 Not close to it. In fact just the opposite, so I will believe it when I see it. Please name a top FA we went after when they were at the top of their game and known to be so and would be expensive?

 

There are perhaps other issues which might signal the hole in the bottom of the boat is getting bigger.

 Caldwell's Plan from the start was blow up the team and start from scratch. That phrase is often used, but Caldwell pretty much did it for real.

He replaced starters with rookies. Some of these starters could follow one of two trajectories, up or down. Whether

Daryl Smith, Eugene Monroe, Derek Cox,MJD,Landry,he was unloading salaries and players who were not bad, sometimes good, and the primary reason appeared to be money. To be replaced with Rookies that cost less.

Is that a plan to save money or a plan to produce a winner?

 

In hindsight, Caldwell admits he was reckless, or made bad choices to be nice. This is a red flag. Does he have a clue what he is doing, or playing it by ear as far as how much to spend and what to spend it on. His head coach hire certainly seems immature and just failed at his first OC hire.

 

These are major decisions about the club's direction which were failed by the new GM,and he conservatively followed the same frugal spending habits that have been the case since the early Coughlin years. Perhaps he did not want to go out on a limb with a major FA hire. Gerhart was gambling Dave?

It makes for a lot of built in excuses for Dave to Khan,  the youngest squad ever, all that potential, more top draft picks. He managed scared and more protective of money than fielding a winning squad. The new promises to spend money sound good(maybe his quote can be interpreted that way, maybe not), but I have a feeling we will not spend any more than in the past, the jags look for VALUE in free agency, not for stars. We will see rookie churn again and again, and if a player gets expensive we will ship them away to a higher spender at the end of their contract.

 I don't feel good about the direction this team is going, whether it is planned failure or failure by incompetence.

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