Yes, especially if he had traded him prior to the draft this year. Jerry waits too long on these contracts- Dak, CD, etc. They always end up costing him more doing it this way and you always run the risk of running out of time this way. Not to mention if you run in to any snags, then you are up against the start of the season. Just plain dumb
We put 40 on them and gave the birds a run for their money, and yet we're still 2-3-1
Agreed but let’s not forget that the only reason this team was looking at a $46 mil price tag was because of Jerry’s insane approach of “getting deals” (Jerry-speak for overpaying) in the last second.
Fans on this forum, never seem to understand this.
There is no question this was poorly handled by Jerry. But there were a lot of people questioning the wisdom of signing Parsons to a 200M deal. The mistake was not in trading Parsons. The error was the timing. The should have been done last march. Yes, this was unfair to Eberflus but personnel wise, this was a very suspect defense even with Parsons. We have too many free lancing knuckleheads who don't understand Eberflus's defensive design.
I'm not at all saying that Jerry handled this the right way. His age and senility was definitely showing through here. Jerry wanted him for 41M a year which I also think would have been a mistake. This should have been thought through and worked out one way or another last spring.
There hasn't been a strategic plan to build this team since Parcel left town. My point was that the GB defense didn't look too good against us. If that's all they get from Parsons, they made a bad trade.
With the use of fa and these extra picks, you can build the defense in a hurry. For the Parsons trade to become successful, they must sign 2-3 impact fa's with the money saved and use those picks to fix the defense.
Well lets hope we don't draft anyone from Michigan again then.
Imagine having a FO that doesn’t see the reality of what their team is until the fans do. No foresight, no real plan - reactive not proactive.
When was the last time this FO signed 2-3 “impact FAs”? Especially on defense.
On that we agree on 200%!
They are going to have to or expect worse results.
Our secondary has killed us. Not sure if parsons could get there fast enough to help us…
....that would a problem I'm concerned with.
They had the $$$ to do what ever they wanted, regardless of trading Micah or not.
Fans are stupid.. That's why you never let them dictate what your team does. And they sour on pretty much anybody who gets a big contract. Like we love a guy making 1 million a year but if he's making 20 million a year we hate him. Same guy, just bigger paycheck. It makes zero sense but we see it every day. I don't pay any of the salaries so I simply don't spend any time or energy worrying about what they get paid. The ONLY concern I have about salaries is how they impact the cap because that impacts how good my team is going to be. Beyond that.. I could care less. At some point a guy is going to make 100 million a year and people will lose their ever lovin minds about it.. As long as it fits under the cap.. I won't bat an eye. In my lifetime I have seen salaries go from when 500K a year was the highest paid player in the game to where that is now league minimum. I've never once not watched a game because guys make too much money.. and I never will.
That is only part of it. Lewis/Watkins/Golston/DLaw/Kendricks were all huge losses. Why? Because they were replaced w/ PS level players.
He was out there twice against San Fran. And nothing.
