You have to think Brown and Scandrick are ahead of him already.
He started 11 games in 2015 and played well. He started 22 games in 2013-14 at Miami and played well. He was the nickel in 2014 and played well.
The Eagles used to roll coverages and blitz a lot. That led to a lot more zone. Schwarz likes press man coveragea and rushing 3 or 4:
http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/06/17/philadelphia-eagles-defense-jim-schwartz-fletcher-cox
That is a really good article discussing Schwarz's scheme and the scheme change if you are interested.
You want to pay Munnerlyn $6m AAV? I don't. Amukamara was looking for $8m AAV. Pass. Neither is twice the player of Carroll. He is certainly the most efficient use of dollars.
A second round corner makes about $1m. There are about 15 CB in the top 100. 11 of them run a 4.7 or better. There are about a dozen more size speed prospects down the draft list. The speed of the class is impressive.
oscan had issues last year and may never be the same after the surgery.
i am not so sure oscan is #2.
what dictates you have to be twice the player to be paid twice as much.
what does twice the player mean - no one runs twice as fast or jumps twice as much.
efficient use of cap dollars - you may as well have all carrolls on the team then you will have really 'efficient' use of cap dollars.
what does efficient mean? if it gets you to the playoffs but no super bowl win, you are still a loser.
in fact you are even a bigger loser than a team that does not make it to the playoffs because your draft position is worse.
a porsche turbo costs 5x more than a normal car and its 0 to 60 is 2 times faster...
these are all artificial constraints.
after a 13-3 year with ~5 clear holes to fixed that can be addressed between fa and the draft, you would expect the fo to go all in.
going all in does not even jeopardize the future, as i have shown numerous times last week in several permutations of the cap table taken out 5 years.
it appears to me that the fo has quietly laid down because they dont think they can beat brady.
to make things worse, they
knowingly allowed the better RTs be signed even though they knew Free was likely retiring.
they are banking on 15 years of a young franchise qb.
they have just put Dak at risk even though the 1st year cap impact of many better RTs are less than the base salary of Free.
starting 2018, the cap space really opens up so the cap is not even an issue.
instead, they insist on the approach of signing backups and relying on the draft to find future starters.
they could well have signed starters/semi-stars (though less in number) and relying on the draft to find future stars (though less in number) who would serve as backups in the 1st half of 2017.
you would still have serviced the 5 needs but not essentially laid down for 2017 and probably 2018.