Believe Jerry and Stephen will be active in free agency but also continue with the youth movement. Should be worth nothing where the upgrades really need to come and who is available.
My Take:
DE - really need a true 5-tech guy here and the only one appears to be Calais Campbell who is 25 but probably going to get a 7 yr 84 mil type contract. Could be worth it or possibly someone like D. Still Penn St in the draft. Arvil out of Detroit might be a guy but Campbell is the prize and sure Arizona knows that also.
OLB - Spencer never lived up to a 1st round pick but he is a good player. Other than Mario Williams who will not be franchised by Houston much to many beliefs (because his franchise number would be $16 mil for one year), Spencer probably is the next best in a 3-4 D. Will we resign him, probably only after we see what the market is for him but if some team offers the farm, forget him.
CB - Willing to say that we will get at least one in free agency and draft one or two. Newman is gone, period. Really only see Scandrick and Jenkins staying at this point. Grimes is 27 and an excellent corner, Carr is 26 and very good, Finnegan is 27 and very good, Thomas despite his knee injury might be worth a short contract, Aaron Ross is better than most of what we have. So I expect us to sign at least one of the top tier guys here. In the draft, probably Claibourne and Kirkpatrick gone when we draft, no sold on Dennard but if we could get Minnefield or Gilmore in the second round I would be good with that and then possibly a Fletcher or Johnson in the third or fourth would be nice.
S - Well we are keeping Sensabaugh but need to get much younger at SS, Tyvon Branch out of Oakland is 25 and a very smart player, good tackler and fair cover guy.
NT - think it is time to move Ratliff to DE and get a big body at NT. Garay at San Diego is a free agent and is Paul Soliai at Miami. Soliai is 355 and 28 yrs old and probably come at less $
OG - Holland played well in relief of Nagy and if Nagy back then it might not be a problem at LG. Arkin seems to be high on the coaches staff at RG for next year but if we could get Nicks who is 27 at LG, you have to go there especially moving Smith to LT next year. In the draft DeCastro could definitely be there at 14 and we would have to consider him. He can also play OC.
OC - Costa and Kowalski are great backups, we really need to get better at OC. Maybe DeCastro could be the guy or Peter Konz from Wisconsin, be nice to get both but that really isn't possible.
Those seem to be the biggest areas of concern and free agency has to play a major part to finish higher than 3rd next year, heck if Washington sign Matt Flynn at QB as a FA they will be much stronger.
Realistically, Jerry has to improve the D through FA this year with two to four guys and fix the OL through the draft.
