So far they have let Carter, Durant, Melton, Harris, Parnell and Murray go. Now, I understand all of them. Most got too much money in FA and had to be let go. But, it still weakened the team and we have done nothing to strengthen it. We were contenders last year. But we are sitting here like the personnel losses mean nothing. Most of the teams that contended in the conference have improved or maintained and we have digressed. The Seahawks added Graham. The Packers look to be about the same so far. The Lions and the Cowboys are the two teams that have gotten worse thus far.
If Romo and Witten were younger, that would not concern me as much. But they have few years left. We are acting like we have only a few holes and time to improve. Our window is closing and we are sitting on our hands and watching free agency pass us by.
Those pieces are replaceable though. All of them. The Seahawks are not crying over losing Byron Maxwell. Why? Because they'll find another one. The same reason they didn't cry when they lost Browner...because they can go and find a Maxwell. Those guys were successful here for us but Melton and Durant were both hurt a large part of last year, Harris was a special teams Ace, Bruce Carter was inconsistent but got it going towards the end of the season and Parnell was solid depth at right tackle.
Seahawks TRADED For Jimmy Graham. Playing this free agency game....understand that its full of players that other teams don't want. There are exceptions. Like a Suh or a Revis. Those guys are gone. We see it year after year. These same teams like the Deadskins, Eagirls and Raiders go into free agency they get solid talent that other teams didn't want to overpay for and a year later everyone wonders why they underachieved.
I'm not going to sit here and tell everyone to be patient because I myself am pass that. But the 2015 season wasn't dependent on any of these free agents. We just needed to make sure we kept the core of our team intact, draft well and for our players to continue progressing. Hopefully for this teams sake guys like Claiborne step up and a guy like Sean Lee becomes healthy.
And last year the same guys who look better then what we are doing "so far" this offseason were huge question marks. You can't tell what's going to happen with this team in March.
Right but that's playing a VERY risky game simply going into the offseason and picking up "suspect" or questionable talents and relying on those pieces to help win you games. Very risky.
You can let a few of your pieces go like Harris or Durant, but when guys like Carter and Murray are gone and you have no real replacement, then that creates a problem. Carter is a deal better than HItchens, especially when Lee and McClain went out. McClain isn't signed and there's no guarantee that he could be. Melton wasn't that great, but he's gone. Spencer is gone. Sterling Moore is gone.
Dez is franchised, so he's not even guaranteed to be here for the long haul. Supposedly the Cowboys aren't going to sign Hardy either... so we lost one of our homerun hitters and the face of our offense last year and a solid LB, and yet we're going to bring in a bunch of 'bargains'. We went from big daddy warbucks in Jerry to scrooge mcduck in stephen. Seems like the FO thinks they are the patriots.
I don't disagree but this is the NFL. You can't hold on to everyone. Lions wanted Suh back. Its the gift and a curse of drafting well. You're going to lose players but its up to you to find their replacements. I believe the Cowboys have done a decent job of that. They lost Bruce Carter and Demarco and IMO as of right now I think they have their replacements waiting in the wings in Hitches and as far as RB's go, Ryan Williams, Dunbar and Randle. These guys aren't irreplaceable pieces. Dez Bryant is. Romo is.
