with non premium positions and address premium positions like LT, DE, and possibly QB this team has a shot of making progress. If I was to sum up Dominik's weakness is that he overpays for non premium positions and it is costing this team dearly.
Alldaway - I feel that what you are eluding to is based solely on the fact that those three positions are what every team rates high. Not so much on the fact the each scheme run will dedicate to a degree what positions are valued over others and the trends that have been established over recent years also is a factor in what are premium positions.LT - Penn has been a serviceable player at LT for many years and the team was able to underpay him for a number of years compared to what other teams have dished out on a LT.QB - they have spent a first and third round in the past five drafts on QB's...so essentially Dominik has tried to draft and develop - there have not many many franchise caliber QB's hitting the open market since Brees and by all accounts he was DAMAGED GOODS...DE - The team has spent a first, second, 2 fourths and a fifth rounder in the past three drafts...so he has been spending premium picks on premium positions....the lone exception has been LT...however with Penn playing at or near an above average LT for many years there has been no need to spend more dollars or a premium pick on a LT...with his play declining of late things might change.
Dom is spending too much on Guards and Safeties. But, especially Guards. At least the Safeties are pretty good.
with non premium positions and address premium positions like LT, DE, and possibly QB this team has a shot of making progress. If I was to sum up Dominik's weakness is that he overpays for non premium positions and it is costing this team dearly.
I totally agree. The use of cap $ over last two years have been unbelievably bad!
I don't see where you're going with this. As Yuccs pointed out, Dominik's high draft picks have overwhelmingly skewed toward the premium positions. As Dy-nasty said, only the free agent deals have gone to non-premium positions and you can make the argument with the Bucs' amount of cap room and the usual situation of other teams not letting premium position players hit free agency in their primes, Dominik really hasn't cost the team anything. It's not like we signed Dashon Goldson and Davin Joseph over Aaron Rodgers and Charles Johnson.
The reason we had so much cap room to blow is because we haven't drafted well, and were the poor kids on the block for 7 years up until just two years ago. Dom could have kept Bennett, signed another DE, signed two good cb's, and kept a 1st and third round pick. Instead, he spent it all on a defensive player far away from the ball that is NOT going to determine whether you win or lose games like OL, DL, QB.
The reason we had so much cap room to blow is because we haven't drafted well, and were the poor kids on the block for 7 years up until just two years ago. Dom could have kept Bennett, signed another DE, signed two good cb's, and kept a 1st and third round pick. Instead, he spent it all on a defensive player far away from the ball that is NOT going to determine whether you win or lose games like OL, DL, QB.
I agree. Signing Goldson with the great safety class this year probably wasn't the best idea ever, either. This regime just doesn't seem like they are making the transition from rebuilding, to built. They are making way too many mistakes.
Alldaway - I feel that what you are eluding to is based solely on the fact that those three positions are what every team rates high. Not so much on the fact the each scheme run will dedicate to a degree what positions are valued over others and the trends that have been established over recent years also is a factor in what are premium positions.LT - Penn has been a serviceable player at LT for many years and the team was able to underpay him for a number of years compared to what other teams have dished out on a LT.QB - they have spent a first and third round in the past five drafts on QB's...so essentially Dominik has tried to draft and develop - there have not many many franchise caliber QB's hitting the open market since Brees and by all accounts he was DAMAGED GOODS...DE - The team has spent a first, second, 2 fourths and a fifth rounder in the past three drafts...so he has been spending premium picks on premium positions....the lone exception has been LT...however with Penn playing at or near an above average LT for many years there has been no need to spend more dollars or a premium pick on a LT...with his play declining of late things might change.
This is over a five year period of Dominik's tenure though. I honestly believe he hasn't invested much at DE, basically non at all at OT on the other hand.Drafting a QB is a fair point (no point in sinking too many draft picks here), but I don't think he has valued the position that much in free agency like he should have.Too much emphasis on safety, guard, punter, linebacker, etc
Alldaway - I feel that what you are eluding to is based solely on the fact that those three positions are what every team rates high. Not so much on the fact the each scheme run will dedicate to a degree what positions are valued over others and the trends that have been established over recent years also is a factor in what are premium positions.LT - Penn has been a serviceable player at LT for many years and the team was able to underpay him for a number of years compared to what other teams have dished out on a LT.QB - they have spent a first and third round in the past five drafts on QB's...so essentially Dominik has tried to draft and develop - there have not many many franchise caliber QB's hitting the open market since Brees and by all accounts he was DAMAGED GOODS...DE - The team has spent a first, second, 2 fourths and a fifth rounder in the past three drafts...so he has been spending premium picks on premium positions....the lone exception has been LT...however with Penn playing at or near an above average LT for many years there has been no need to spend more dollars or a premium pick on a LT...with his play declining of late things might change.
This is over a five year period of Dominik's tenure though. I honestly believe he hasn't invested much at DE, basically non at all at OT on the other hand.Drafting a QB is a fair point (no point in sinking too many draft picks here), but I don't think he has valued the position that much in free agency like he should have.Too much emphasis on safety, guard, punter, linebacker, etc
With teams spreading defenses out more and more quality safeties who can cover, play the run and be physically imposing are the new breed of safeties...emphasis on coverage ability. As for spending on QB's in free agency why spend on the position on the open market when most if not all that have hit the open market recently have been garbage or merely below average stop gap types. Spending a first, second, and two fourths is quite a bit of draft resources on defensive ends...taking it a step further the team has drafted the following players along the defensive line under Dominik. McCoy, Brian Price, Roy Miller, Akeem Spence, Adrian Clayborn, Da;Quan Bowers, William Gholston, Kyle Moore and Steven Means during his tenure that's nine draft choices 2 first, 2 second, 1 third, 3 fourths and 1 fifth rounder trying to fix the pass rush. What the team hasn't done is delve in to free agency to fix the pass rush with the best available being Mario Williams a few years ago. Like QB's a quality DE rarely hits the open market. Most teams franchise them or lock them up long term.
I honestly believe he hasn't invested much at DE.
Wha....? He has drafted 5 or 6 DEs It's not that he doesn't know which positions are valuable. He just can't evaluate talent very well
Dom is spending too much on . .
How does a GM spend too much on any one position when the team is well under the cap? In other words, he "overpaid" Nicks, but to what harm? Its not like it prevents us from doing anything.I am less and less a fan of Dom, just don't get the criticism on this issue, especially the way the contracts are structured. And if he "overpaid" for Nicks, as an example, does he get credit for not doing a long deal for Free?criticize the guy for not bringing enough talent in, but size of contract? The Glazers can handle it . .
Dom is spending too much on . .
How does a GM spend too much on any one position when the team is well under the cap? In other words, he "overpaid" Nicks, but to what harm? Its not like it prevents us from doing anything.I am less and less a fan of Dom, just don't get the criticism on this issue, especially the way the contracts are structured. And if he "overpaid" for Nicks, as an example, does he get credit for not doing a long deal for Free?criticize the guy for not bringing enough talent in, but size of contract? The Glazers can handle it . .
When is the last year we hit the cap? Why don't they use it all to sign better players?
Dom is spending too much on . .
How does a GM spend too much on any one position when the team is well under the cap? In other words, he "overpaid" Nicks, but to what harm? Its not like it prevents us from doing anything.I am less and less a fan of Dom, just don't get the criticism on this issue, especially the way the contracts are structured. And if he "overpaid" for Nicks, as an example, does he get credit for not doing a long deal for Free?criticize the guy for not bringing enough talent in, but size of contract? The Glazers can handle it . .
When is the last year we hit the cap? Why don't they use it all to sign better players?
non sequitur
Dom is spending too much on . .
How does a GM spend too much on any one position when the team is well under the cap? In other words, he "overpaid" Nicks, but to what harm? Its not like it prevents us from doing anything.I am less and less a fan of Dom, just don't get the criticism on this issue, especially the way the contracts are structured. And if he "overpaid" for Nicks, as an example, does he get credit for not doing a long deal for Free?criticize the guy for not bringing enough talent in, but size of contract? The Glazers can handle it . .
That's the short term view but you only have to think about David coming up for an extension, he will have seen the contract given to Black, which didn't hurt us at the time because we had the room, and could think to himself "I'm x10 the player he ever was, I deserve to be paid accordingly or I'll take my services elsewhere at the first chance."In terms of overpaying our guards, what happens when we find a franchise LT to replace Penn and he works on his FA contract, "If they're paying guards like that I should get..."How about Revis, trying to make a deal for a CB now could be a nightmare for us as we've given him 50% more than the next highest paid corner in the league at a time when he was damaged goods. Any FA corner worth a damn is going to expect to be overpaid.Just because you have money to spend doesn't mean you should just forget all about the value of things.
The reason we had so much cap room to blow is because we haven't drafted well, and were the poor kids on the block for 7 years up until just two years ago. Dom could have kept Bennett, signed another DE, signed two good cb's, and kept a 1st and third round pick. Instead, he spent it all on a defensive player far away from the ball that is NOT going to determine whether you win or lose games like OL, DL, QB.
No way I would've given a first for Revis, let alone a third too! We were the only players in town. Nobody else wanted him because they didn't want to pay him. We should've set the market, not the Jets. I would've offered a 2nd rounder and that was it! I agree though, we could've gotten more for what we paid for Revis.
