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Dez Bryant and....
Brandon Marshall, I say sign them both to 1 year deals. We have the cap space and Luck is supposedly coming back to play behind the best Oline he has ever had a chance to play behind yet one of the weakest receiving corps.
By showcasing a healthy Luck this season, hopefully, we will get more love from free agents next year. And by signing both, we double down and hooe just 1 plays up to par. Bryant and Marshall both can play WR1 or WR2, allowing us to move Hilton wherever we want. Keeping with this strategy of signing 2 veteran players of the same position on 1 yr deals.... We should also beef up our CB and MLB situation with 1 yr deals for.... Adam PacMan Jones and Dominque Rogers-Cromartie at CB, and Brian Cushing and Lawrence Timmons at MLB. With those 6 players we could be playing in the playoffs and at the end of the season we can resign 2 or 3 of these players if we so chose. The Oline helps the run and pass game, but if we added another weapon or two at WR.... this not only helps the pass game but the run game as well. Our RBs would be given a lot of space with the secondary having to concetrate on stopping Hilton, Bryant, Marshall, Doyle and Ebron. Our offense would be top 5 or top 10 with a healthy Luck. And with these 4 defensive players, our defense would be competitive enough for us to win games. Sounds like a Grigson move, but if we can get them each on 1 or 2 year deals with little guaranteed money in that 2nd yr, thwn we really have nothing to lose, only gain. |
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I doubt Ballard has even thought about the possibility of doing any of the things you just listed.
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To be fair, Grigson would sign them to 3 yr deals with mass amounts of guaranteed money. I am saying 1 yr deals.
We have too many rookies that need an entire season of playing time to learn. They would still get plenty of playing time and its not like the WRs wouldnt learn anything playing behind Hilton, Bryant and Marshall. Unless we are all good with another throw away year and sucking it up for another top 5 draft pick in our rebuild mode. But that just throws another year away for Luck. I was fine with the Suck For Luck campaign and last year's Suck For Nelson campaign.... but 2 years of intentional sucking in a row? Who are we now, the Brown? The only things we lose by digning players to 1 yr deals are.... 1. Loss of playing time for rookies that arent ready for that much playing time anyway. 2. A better record which means a worse draft position. 3. Loss of a late 4th round compensatory draft pick. But what we gain in return with all that firepower on offense and depth on defense.... with a healthy Luck? That could be a deep playoff run and added value to lure free agents. Its funny to me to see fans jump on bandwagon ideals, like free agency is not the way to build a winning team. Bullshit. Yes we would rather fraft our studs but studs do become available in the free agency, this Polian mentality that teams never let go of studs is for the birds. It was then and it is now. Free agency helps put teams over the top. Remember the Patriots before and after Randy Moss? You cant rebuild a team strictly through free agency, tje draft IS more important in this regard.... but the free agency DOES help. And for those that think it doesnt then perhaps we should cut Ebron right now because something MUST be wrong with him according to the Polian mentality.... which there is actually somehing wrong with him, drops. But in most cases its age or the price tag got to high for their original teams and a younger cheaper talent acquired via the draft is ready to take over their role. There was nothing wrong with Hankins or Sheard was there, and we lwt Hankins go for "scheme fit" even though he was still perhaps our best defensive player. He could habe still played the 0 or 1 Tech, but we let him go and some other team can get a stud for relatively cheap. Ryan Grant was also a free agent signee and sorry if i dont think he is going to amount to much. Not like Bryant or Marshall would amount to. Luck needs 1 more proven weapon at WR to take the pressure off Hilton and Grant is not a proven weapon that will force teams to shy away from Hilton. |
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And there was no intentional sucking. They weren’t intentionally sucking for a fucking guard last year. And if you watched the Luck season you would have realized they were bad, very bad and the were gambling with having a bad backup QB. Then when Polian tried to fix it, he signed the slowest release QB in the league. Peyton was the most hit QB in the league after release, and he had a fast release. We just installed a new coaching staff and a new offense and defense, we are not going on a deep playoff run with a couple over the hill receivers. Last edited by Chromeburn; 05-16-2018 at 03:59 PM. |
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We will develop our own. Only way to do that is to play them. Overpriced players beyond their prime with questionable attitudes, no thanks
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We have plenty to lose. Ballard is trying to build the team the right way, not by buying a few wins now. We don't need washed up prima donnas and over the hill guys, this is has been said a rebuild. Develop young guys and mix in a few vets, but hiring every name that was great in the past is not the answer, this isn't Madden.
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If mid season we are doing better than expected then MAYBE he can make a move that would get us into the playoffs... Right now just keep building the way you are Ballard Just having a healthy Luck on the field and Pagano/Chud not on the field gives us 10 more wins...
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