Free Agency

I agree this team needs to find a high end receiver. LaFelle and Gettis should improve next year, but coordinators and secondaries have a year of tape on them as well. It's likely a wash.

The passing game wasn't just bad it was historically bad. You can't throw late and mid round picks at that spot and think it's a fix.

Do you want a rookie QB trying to learn this system with teams fearlessly stacking the box again?

 

Newt has a chance to succeed. You read it here first.


i agree. they need to get us a good, veteran receiver to team with smitty. let lafell and gettis continue to develop ... on the bench. and my hunch is that they will. JR wants to open this thing up and make the game fun for us fans.

 

I hope you are right about Newton and his passing ability. He likes to run the ball a lot and when QBs do that they rarely are effective in the passing game, not in the NFL anyway.

 

Interesting quote from Jerry Richardson:

"We want to pay the money to the proven veteran players,” Richardson said. “The rookies, 50 percent of them, don’t make it. And it’s more efficient to spend the money (on the veteran players). The money doesn’t flow through the owners, it flows through to the veteran players for redistribution.”

I'm assuming he's talking about reasons to put in the rookie wage scale. So mass sums of money aren't going to rookies above veterans. At the time of this quote, however, he was talking about putting the best team he can and as quickly as he can and said they will be aggressive in FA. If they are really going to be aggressive it goes against that how rebuild through the players you draft motif we've suffered through. Still not convinced many choice FA's will opt to come here. From what it sounds like we will retain every FA of value that we have. So that will take a large hunk out of that $32 million we have to spend. I just hope aggressive spending isn't stupid spending.

 

Good thoughts, and I agree. I think the best chance for adding talent is with guys like Mebane who their own teams aren't wanting to spend big money on, for whatever reason.

 

In my humble opinion there is a lot of talent on this team that could be leaving soon if we do not make sure they don't. I think the first step is to retain the best of those guys.

I would also love to see a veteran QB on this team. Even if Newton turns out to be a very good QB I doubt he does it his rookie year. The lockout kept him from getting prepared and I still think his transition to the NFL will be difficult. Aaron Rodgers sat on the bench for a while and I think it was beneficial for him. Drew Brees started too early but once he got his feet under him he became awesome.

We could use some help at DT and some depth on the OL...

 

if they bring in a vet qb it wont be for the purpose of starting. clausen or cam. the vet would be a mentor/groomer/clipboard holder. if thats not moore, and it truthfully probably shouldn't be, then he's the odd man out. there are bigger needs.

 

I would rather see them bring in a guy who can start the season and possibly give way to Newton later in the year. Todd Collins, Marc Bulger, Billy Volek, etc.

 

2-14
2-14
2-14

joder la manta

That ship has sailed, unfortunately. If you draft a guy 10th or lower then you can sit him his rookie season. If you draft him 4th or 5th through 10th then you can sit him for most of his rookie season, but the public will want him to play some. If you draft him in the top three, he's going to be your starter most if not all of the season.

Brees only started one game his rookie season.

 

I know we went 2-14 but I still think there is some talent on that roster. Fox being a lame duck and starting a QB who was clearly not ready was the biggest reason they went 2-14.

You are probably right about Newton starting from day one but I think it is a mistake. Brees struggled his first year or two of starting. I did not realize he sat most of his rookie year. It took him a while and that is why they drafted Rivers.

If you look back at the history of QBs who were drafted high and started right away it is probably no better than 50-50 that he will have any success. Why not have a veteran to fall back on?