I think we can all agree that we are missing several quality game-changing players. In looking at next year's draft and potential free agents market you have to look at our salary cap situation. By cutting tate zeitler, pull ey we will have freed up a good amount of money on top of the fact that we will probably ask our left tackle to take a pay cut. We should be able to get to around $50 million under the cat what we need is several quality players, one number one receiver, one number two corner, one top edge rusher. I would like to resign Tomlinson and Williams for about 28 mil total. I'm wondering if we have our number two corner already on the roster between yadiom, Lewis and Beal. They have all flashed and seem competent in their assignments period that leaves us with the need of a true edge rusher which I think we need to get in free agency. Maybe go after someone like Bud Dupree.
Thoughts?
If you'll recall, the 2005 offseason was Plax/McKenzie/Pierce, and a contender was born.
IMO, the Giants need a #1 WR, a 2-way TE and a stud DE. If they can get all 3 of those pieces and find parts that fit the team they currently have, they will be really good. But this is a tough, workmanlike team. Gotta bring the right types of guys in.
Corners must come from draft.
Hopefully Get Barkley, Carter and others back to new.
straighten out coaching staff....
Cap is manageable
Corners must come from draft.
Hopefully Get Barkley, Carter and others back to new.
straighten out coaching staff....
Cap is manageable
I think you have it backwards. Top edges don’t make FA and the guys that do are always seriously overpaid. On the flip side you can get solid second corners that are older. We def need 1 or the other, but the way the defense is constructed I don’t think we need both to be really good defensively. Team desperately needs another WR. Need another ILB that can cover middle of field, but if Love progresses like he has and McKinney is the goods you’ll see a lot of Peppers in that role.
Yes....Edge FA usually are not available but I am talking just for this coming year and the draft does not have that guy....corners, wrs, etc...yes...
Hoping with flat cap...a bud Dupree type does break loose
Cut Tate, Solder, Core, Mayo and they have about 38 mil in space.
Take out 4 mil for Gano so they'd have about 34 mil.
They may have a decision to make on Zeitler- either get him to take a paycut (maybe more likely given the situation next year) or cut him and save 12mil
My #1 target in FA: Allen Robinson. This would give DJ his Plax.
On offense, need a #1 WR, and a real TE and possibly more interior line help - OG/C. Barkley should be back so RB instantly improves, but need a #2 RB - a bulldozer type.
Not trying to argue ... but, I can never ever see the cap going down. It will always go up - "cost of living" (I know that sounds ridiculous when we are talking about multi-million dollar salaries) raises.
When was the last time the cap ever went down?
Edge rusher (likes most others have said), another talented LB, a WR, and even another OL.
I like the progress that the OL is making and the potential it has ... but, I want the best OL in the league. That will make EVERYBODY else on the offense look and play better.
Are you afraid the Giants will miss out on something between now and the end of the year because they didn’t have your input? The trade deadline has passed.
Edge rusher (likes most others have said), another talented LB, a WR, and even another OL.
I like the progress that the OL is making and the potential it has ... but, I want the best OL in the league. That will make EVERYBODY else on the offense look and play better.
This we got dummies saying this is a 3-7 team wah wah wah. Now if they finish 3-3 they went 5-3 over the back half of the season. A young team getting better with a new inspiring head coach. Not an old team who started out hot and then injuries piled up and limped into playoffs. Now if we don't go 3-3 I'll get some of the whining, but we just won back to back games that really weren't all that close.
Are you afraid the Giants will miss out on something between now and the end of the year because they didn’t have your input? The trade deadline has passed.
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Sign the DTs
Get a #1 FA receiver and draft 1
Draft a CB
Get FA ILB
Fortify OL with a FA veteran and draft 1
Summary
Premium picks: CB, WR, LB/OL
Premium FA: WR,
Tier 2 FA: ILB/OL
Keep: Both DTs
to me a reasonable strategy would be to add two WRs & two CBs. Target one each from free agency and one each from first few pick (Day 1 or Day 2). This brings experience and hopefully developing youth to each unit.
Value at Edge Rusher in free agency is a tough proposition so would hope there is somebody there on Day 1 or Day 2 of draft that works. If there is a clear target in free agency at Edge then I would be letting Leonard Williams walk so as to properly manage cap $/DL roster.
Also imv, Solder is no longer needed although would look for another swing tackle in free agency (hopefully a tad better than Fleming). And nobody I have seen on roster is reliable enough at #2 corner, including Beal.
I would focus all of our energy here. Do I want another WR and a CB? Sure... but if I had one dollar so spend then I am spending that money on the lines