I do not necessarily take issue with the specific moves lately, but my major problem is that the timing of these moves indicates that there is basically no grander strategy being employed.
Why in the world are we lighting draft capital on fire when we have a historically bad defense that will need 5+ new starters to even be competitive next year?
Why was Micah Parsons not traded before the draft or even the previous season when we clearly had no intention of winning the next two years and had likely already decided we were probably not going to resign him?
Why did we not trade for a single impact player from 2021-2023 when this team had a real, concrete chance at winning the super bowl with just another great defensive player to put them over the top, but now we're throwing picks like they expire tomorrow to save a god forsakenly awful team this year?
The decision making is just completely manic, emotionally driven, and schizophrenic. Where is the vision for this team actually going? Absolutely nowhere in my opinion.
If, big if, this is the first step of many more to come, as we head into next season, it could potentially work on paper at least.
However, no one can trust or have faith in GM Jethro at this point, until proven otherwise.
We don't need a top 5 offense, if we have a legit defense.
Resigning RB Williams is a must in my opinion and Aubrey as well, if we plan on fixing this defense.
Tag and trade Pickens, he is a luxury and no SB team has won with two highly paid WR's in the salary cap era. Hopefully we can get a 2nd or at least a high 3rd in return.
Draft the two best available and "healthy" defensive players in round 1. Do not make the mistake of having to pick a specific position. We could use an upgrade damn near everywhere on defense.
I would love to keep Clark, but he may need to be restructured, traded or cut - $20M seems a bit steep.(no impact on cap if he is let go)
I don't believe we can part ways with OSA without eating a lot of money.
Move on from Diggs. Let's continue the movement of having the right people on the Bus.
With the savings of not resigning Pickens, go get another impact FA defensive player.
Adding Williams, Wilson, impact FA, best 2 first round picks available, should jump start this defense forward, with some young high potential players, when heathy - Overshown, Carson and EZ. Bland, Osa, Kneeland are still very serviceable as well.
Let's build a complimentary defense that can keep the score around 20 points a game. At that point we could win games with Aubrey alone.
....... yep, this was Jerry (possibly expecting we'd beat the Cards) and making a move that's for now and the future. As with yourself, why do the trade now, this could of been done around the time of the draft (for cheaper).
