Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I still think with trading Alex plus cutting Akers and letting Sopoaga, Moss, Jacobs go there should be enough money to sign Goldson plus our draft class. We should do this. I can't belive a rookie will play as well as Goldson.
I agree, I don't see the purpose of not at least tagging Goldson for 7.5 mil. Smith plus Akers put us at 13.5 or so... ab said we need like 5-6.5 for draft so that's like 7ish, which means Goldson would have ate all our cap so no other FAs could sign. We would have to look into restructuring/cutting Goodwin/Haralson... it could easily be done. I agree his loss will be bigger than most think. The only thing I can think of is we are saving up to re-sign Kap, Aldon, Iupati, Davis, etc... maybe Brown and Justin. We are looking towards the future. It will be tough to replace Goldson; very few rookie safeties have come in and played at a high level... it's a position that takes time. Like I said I guess we are expecting our offense to put up more points and our pass rush to be better (hopefully due to rotating and better depth). P.S. The part that sucks even worse is with how much FAs are getting paid Iupati, Davis, Aldon, etc will want record deals and we probably won't be able to keep them all. I think the nfl is changing and teams will have to start learning how to build and reload through the draft. Until teams stop relying on FA and overpaying guys the prices will keep going up and there will be record deals left and right. The average FA is making what an elite FA made even 5-10 years ago. How many work out? 1/25? More of the budget low priced guys work out.
[ Edited by Gore_21 on Mar 7, 2013 at 11:49 PM ]