Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by walker807:
Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by walker807:
Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Originally posted by LVJay:
Originally posted by Costanza:
Lynch better kill it in the draft because this free agency period has been highly questionable.
Letting Buckner go while paying Armstead and Ward big money is....just not that impressive.
The only thing Lynch killed is beating / surpassing Baalke by a landslide
What would you have offered Buck? Curious what the anti-Lynch crowd has to say.
I am pro-Buckner and disappointed by the anti-Buckner crowd.
I would have offered him whatever it took to keep him. The team was cheap and was 25+ million dollars under the cap for several years. I would have spent that rollover space.
I also wouldn't have drafted Thomas and not had an urge to be right about such a terrible pick.
When did the team not spend the rollover? Guys had to get paid, it was inevitable that the rollover would get used, this is necessary to build a team from garbage to SB in 3 years. Kwon, Ford, Jimmy all got paid. Now AA and Ward got paid, Kittle is basically the only looming concern. I would have loved to keep DeFo, I think the argument could be made that he was the best player on defense. If guys aren't cool taking a team friendly "Paraag" deal then we should expect them to walk. Getting a top 15 pick in the process smoothed the burn a looooot though. Unless you can point out where you called Thomas a bad pick and had a better suggestion from before the draft, can we please stop playing captain hindsight.
I can. Called it redundant at best and suggested getting a qb.
Picking a guy with a ceiling of DeFo light instead of a position of need was dumb.
I commented about it in the Thomas thread...you can check the fist dozen pages.
Chances are we would have gotten Trubisky so maybe not a bad outcome anyways lol. I just tend to get sick of the "I would have drafted Mahomes!" crowd, not that you mentioned Mahomes. Everone already knew Kyle was sporting wood for Cousins and likely wasn't looking for a 2017 draft QB, Jimmy becoming available was just a bonus for us.
Trubiskey was another obvious wrong choice.
Cousins sucks. Mahomes and Watson were the right guys, too bad Kyle couldn't see it.
Regardless, Thomas made no sense, a tradeback would have been better than picking a player who filled no need.
Just to follow up on your comment about Thomas. Yes, so far he's been a disappointment, though really has spent a lot of time playing out of position. However, a couple points. Armstead was also somewhat of a letdown his first couple seasons. More importantly, Thomas was drafted (I believe) with Armstead and Buckner in mind. Lynch/Shanahan knew they couldn't keep them both, so he was drafted as a potential replacement. Optimistically, it plays out with that in mind.
