You have to find a QB this off season, either draft one, make a trade, but KC cannot be your QB moving forward unless you want to continue to lose every big game. Thankfully one year left and he either plays while the young guy gets ready or serves as an expensive backup. We are not winning with him, so it really makes no sense for him to take another snap as a starter.
I like Cook, but I would not tie up a big chunk of the salary cap on a guy who can't stay on the field. Mattison is going to want to start at some point and is not a huge drop.
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
Feels like the off-season after last night, even though it ain't yet
How do you improve from good to great for this franchise?
- What do you do with KC? (the sure alternative is...?)
- What do you do with Cook? Who will most certainly want a new deal
- How do you improve the D and OL?
- Where do you place your salary cap bets?
- Are they fine with this coaching staff?
- Do you still trust RS to make those decisions?
- I'm leaning towards keeping Cousins, ideally for something like 2-more years, with the provision that they draft a young QB to develop.
- When Cook is healthy, he's an elite back, and we saw what happens to the offense when the threat of a running game is removed. However, Cook has missed a lot of games, which does make extending him scary. I also think that having both Cook & Mattison out was a bit of a flukey thing, I think you keep him for one more contract, but contract negotiations will be tough.
- The D desperately needs a 3-technique/UT who is able to generate quick pressure up the middle. I also think that drafting a DE to replace Griffen in the next year or two is a becoming a bigger need. We have some nice rotational players like Odenigbo & Weatherly, but I'm not sure if either are good enough to replace Griffen. Odenigbo might be able to. Cornerback is a nightmare, our two best corners in Waynes and Alexander are FAs while Rhodes & Hughes are still under contract. Hughes may still improve, but it's likely time to move on from Rhodes so we can keep Waynes &/or Alexander. I could see them burning another 1st rounder on a CB, but I think we'd get better results out of upgrading the DL. As for the OL, I think the right side is alright. Maybe we replace Kline with Dozier or Samia, but I'm ok with that side. The left side is bad. Both Reiff and Elflein will likely need to be replaced. We could look at moving O'Neill to LT and trying to find a RT through the draft or FA and LG may need to be a lower level FA or someone already on the roster.
- I think that veterans like Rhodes, Griffen, Joseph, and Reiff will all be candidates to be cut or restructured. I think that Waynes, Alexander, Harris, Kearse, Weatherly, & Wilson are FAs that would be worth trying to keep. The hard part is that our cap situation for 2020 is still pretty bad. We could try extending players like Cook or Cousins if that allows us to save cap room in 2020. Improving through the draft would be nice, but we won't have enough picks and we likely won't have enough cap space to even add mid level FAs, It will be a tough spot unless they make some massive moves to clear cap.
We're in a tough spot where we'll need to clear cap and really need to improve through player development, what draft assets we have, & low to mid level FAs. It's not impossible, but I do worry that they haven't done enough to replace aging talent ahead of time.
Quote: @Clanzomaelan said:
@ purplefaithful said:
Feels like the off-season after last night, even though it ain't yet
How do you improve from good to great for this franchise?
- What do you do with KC? (the sure alternative is...?)
- What do you do with Cook? Who will most certainly want a new deal
- How do you improve the D and OL?
- Where do you place your salary cap bets?
- Are they fine with this coaching staff?
- Do you still trust RS to make those decisions?
- KC- I like Kirk, but I am completely clueless as to what the offensive game plan was other than... offensive.™ Obviously, his replacement needs to come from this coming draft.
- Cook- UGH. How do you let that talent go? But- If you can't rely on him to be in games that decide the division... is he worth the money? I just don't see us letting him walk, but I'm glad I'm not the one making the decision!
- DL & OL- Let BarrNone, MaroonBells, and FSUVike sit in the war room. Thank you.
- Salary Cap Bets- In Brez We Trust.
- Coaching Staff- It may be time for a change. From the fans perspective, and maybe even the player's perspective. We may need a change of scenery.
- RS- I like RS. He's aggressive in the draft, but his ability to pick a QB, and stack our OL is suspect. I'm not sure where the fault lies with the talent distribution, but we really need some studs on the OL.
Man, if they ever have an adult version of Make A Wish...
Great topic, Faithful.
What do you do with KC? (the sure alternative is...?)
Unless Tua really slides, I think we spend a pick later in the draft on a QB...Maybe Fromm, maybe the kid from Washington State, but definitely someone.
Try to get Cousins to work a team friendly extension...ask him flat out which is more important to him, winning or money.
What do you do with Cook? Who will most certainly want a new deal
Transition tag? It's become painfully obvious we can't count on him for 16 games. With our scheme, the position gets devalued a bit. Hopefully another team friendly deal can be worked.
How do you improve the D and OL?
Leatherwood and Foti...Where do you place your salary cap bets?
Ant Man™ with an extension is overdue.
Are they fine with this coaching staff?
Gray and Edwards need to be replaced.
Do you still trust RS to make those decisions?
More than I trust a fart at work...I think we have a winning roster that underperformed far too often...
We could trade Zimmer to Dallas on a reverse Herschel Walker trade...! 
I gotta against the grain here. Signing Kirk Cousins was the ALL IN move for both Spielman and Zimmer. You don't start bailing on Year 3 of him as your Franchise QB by letting the GM who talked you into signing him also draft his successor.
I like Rick but he simply hasn't shown that he can be trusted to draft QBs. And if Kirk fails then he also hasn't been able to identify one in FA. So why trust him to take another swing?
Use that Draft Pick, which presumably would be in the first 4 Rounds, to address a weakness. I'd be OK with using 2 on the O-Line and 2 on the D-Line. Get a vet like Johnathan Joseph or a reclamation project like Bradley Roby to try and fix the Secondary.
This Defense must get push up the middle. It will help the CBs. It will help the LBs when they blitz. All Vowels and Weatherly replace Griff and are probably more productive combined than he is since he's only good for half a season. Trust Brez to make Ant Harris a deal he can't refuse. The Defense isn't that far off from being the normal bend but don't break we're used to.
Leatherwood and a 4th Round Guard to compete with Samia plus another Dozier type lottery ticket should improve the O-Line enough. Elf is bottom 5th of the League. Reiff is now Replacement-Level. Bradbury will get stronger and be fine. Diggs, Healthy Thielen, growing Irv Smith, 3 headed stable of RBs, Rudy still great in the Redzone and probably had his best season of his career as a blocker. Johnson is a legit #3 with more seasoning.
Stefanski and KC with another offseason to grow together. Yes, Kirk needs a clean pocket. So does Matt Ryan and a bunch of other good QBs that can get you to a Super Bowl. Give him a Line that can create that pocket more often than this crappy one and see how far he can take you. If he doesn't get it done you let him walk along with Spielman and Zimmer and start over.
At this point I legitimately trust whomever the next GM will be without even knowing who it is more than I trust Rick to find Minnesota's next Franchise QB.
I thought we might see Bridgewater be that franchise guy by year 3 in our system. Now I'm not sure what his ceiling is and whether it was just bad luck and/or a reach at the bottom of the 1st???
He's probably going to get a shot somewhere - unless NO's somehow retains him post Brees.
We have two picks in the 3rd
JAKE FROMMQB, GEORGIA BULLDOGS
Georgia junior QB Jake Fromm said he has not made his decision on whether he will declare for the 2020 NFL Draft.Fromm (6'2/220) is in a trickier spot than most any other QB in this class. After a strong sophomore season, Fromm looked rather pedestrian for much of 2019, in part because the Bulldogs lost a number of key receivers and OC James Coley refused to open up the offense in any capacity. Coming back for one more year at Georgia may not fix that, either, as they will still be relying on a ton of young WRs and will be losing a couple of key OL, including LT Andrew Thomas. If Fromm declares, he is likely a Day 2 pick.
SOURCE: Marc Weiszer on Twitter
Hmmm. Tribute to Neptizzle here. Sign LT Jason Peters to a 1 year deal. He's still better now than Whitworth was 2 years ago but also 38. Sign Incognito to a 1 year deal to play LG and hold your nose. He's played much better than Elf this year but is old and out of football 2 years ago. Won't cost much.
Trade up for Kinlaw with one of the 3rds. 2nd on CB. Fromm with other 3rd. Holes filled for final run in current window plus potential QB of the future. Boom!
Assuming that we look like the 6th seed we are in
the playoffs:
I think you extend the coaching staff another year, so that they’re
under contract through 2021. You can always
fire them, but it’s good to have them under contract and I want to see what
this team is able to do with the same offensive coaching staff 2 years in a row
and what Zimmer can do now that we can devote some resources to the defense. On offense, we need to keep building. We need to improve the OLine still. We need to continue to improve our offensive
schemes. It seems like we have one
scheme that works against bad teams, but not against good teams. I think we just need to flesh out gameplans
against the teams that seem to have our number. You can’t be a coach here long losing to GB
like we did this year. I would like to
see us have enough offensive flexibility to counter any style of defense, so
that if they take away our A game, we aren’t SOL. On defense, I think Zimmer just needs some
better pieces now. We stocked the
defense up and then spent a long time working on the offense, and our defense
got old. I’d love to see what our
defense looks like with a game-wrecker at DT to put next to Joseph. I still think we need more nasty on defense.
I think Rhodes is out, unless he has a huge increase in speed
over the offseason. There’s a good
chance that Griffen is out. Regarding
Cook, I think you have to let him play out his contract, unless he would agree
to a pretty good deal. I just can’t see
paying him on what he can do when healthy when he’s been injured 2/3 the time. His playing style is going to lead to
injuries. He’s surprisingly physical for
his size. And 10 out of 10 times, I’d rather
pay a stud OL than a stud RB. I’d still
keep Reiff one more year, but I think you bring in a stud for LG if you have
the chance. I think one more high draft
pick on the OLine will go a long ways. I’d
love to find some way to keep Harris, but I think he’ll be out of our price
range. Who knows what happens with Waynes
and Alexander. I think they’ve both been
pretty good , but not spectacular or anything.
My draft needs feel like this: 1) Elite
capable QB if we have the chance. 2) Game Wrecker at DT. 3) LG/CB
I have a complete blind spot regarding the CBs. I just don’t know what to do there. It seems like we take 3 years to develop
DBs. Hughes should be better another
year out of surgery. You can’t trust
Hill with a starting spot. We might be
losing our top 3 corners, but none of them are good enough to pay like we want
to keep them. Maybe we can find another
Newman out there, that’s past his prime but cheap enough?
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