The Way Too Early Offseason Plan Thread

JDouble · 2014-01-11T13:37:45Z

Free Agency We start with roughly $17M in cap space. Restructure Revis, Nicks, and McCoy. McCoy is in the final year of his rookie deal and is making over $13M. With a new deal in place that number should go down to $10M this year, saving us $3M. With Revis, his no guaranteed money/huge cap number contract was a prove it deal to make sure he was healthy. If we are keeping him then he needs a real deal with guaranteed money and a lower cap hit. Instead of $16M his cap hit drops to $13M, saving us an additional $3M in space. With Nicks it's tricky. There is a good chance he retires and doesn't even come back or we cut him because he still isn't healthy, but if he does show up and seems healthy...he has to realize he hasn't earned the $20M+ he has made over the last two years and that he is not the same player anymore. Dude has got to restructure and make it easier for us to keep him. Just move the money around so that it pays out big in 2015 and 2016 so that if he actually manages to come back and be great he can still get that money, but this year he can't count for more than $5M. That saves us $4M. Those three moves gain us an extra $10M in cap space so we are at $27M.Resign Jonathan Casillas, Dekoda Watson, Jamon Meredith, and Bobby Rainey. These are cheap depth and special team re-signings that will use up about $6M in cap space, leaving us about $21M Cut (or trade) Michael Koenen, Davin Joseph, Da'Quan Bowers, Derek Landri, Gabe Carimi, Luke Stocker, Michael Smith, Michael Hill, Chris Owusu, Russell Sheppard, Skye Dawson, Leonard Johnson, and Bradley McDougald. This frees up about $16M giving us about $37M to work with for the opening of Free Agency.Signing Targets O-line - After cutting Joseph, and knowing the odds are Nicks won't be back, we have to come up big at O-line in FA. Our number on target in Free Agency should be Center Alex Mack. Top centers aren't that expensive and for the money he will provide the most bang for the buck this FA period. After we get him signed Zuttah would move out to guard, but we should try to sign G Evan Dietrich-Smith or G Jon Asamoah if one can be had at a decent price. We should be able to get Mack and a solid guard for $10M, leaving us $27M is space.D-line - Jared Allen, Julius Peppers, Justin Tuck, or Michael Bennett. Bennett might actually be the better value because of the age factor, but anyone of these four guys will be great. Michael Johnson is a one year wonder that didn't look good this year and is too risky. Greg Hardy is going to be way too expensive. After we get our big d-line signing we should target another less expensive addition like Mike Neal, CJ Wilson, Arthur Jones, Corey Wooton, Lamarr Houston, or Linvel Joseph. For one top tier and one second tier defensive lineman, we should spend about $10M leaving us $17M *edit: Forgot to include Brian Orakpo and jason Worilds. They both most definitely should be included as a target for pass rushing DE.Secondary - Like D-line, I think we should try to sign a tier one guy and a tier two guy. Tier one guys I would target are CB Alterraun Verner, CB Charles Tillman, CB Sam Shields, CB Nolan Carroll. The tier two guys I like are CB AJ Jefferson, CB Walter Thurmond, S Major Wright, S Darrell Stuckey. This should leave us with about $9M in cap space. Now we have to save about $5M in cap room for rookie signings and emergency, so we still have about $4M left to improve our roster depth with smaller cheaper signings. Hard to say who we actually get, but I say we target WR Andre Roberts, WR Damian Williams, WR Dane Sanzenbacher, QB Pat Devlin, QB Rex Grossman, QB Chad Henne, TE Andrew Quarles, LB Josh Bynes, and LB Larry Grant.DraftIdeally I want a QB in the 1st round, but unless something crazy happens and somebodies stock takes a nose dive....we ain't getting one of the top three. So, as much as I hate it...my plan involves moving forward with Glennon and trying to be get better around him. 1st round - I would try really hard to trade back, but if we are stuck at #7 then I'm taking an OT. Matthews will likely be gone, but there are several highly rated OTs at the top of this draft. I prefer Greg Robinson.2nd round - This spot reserved for TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins.3rd round - NO PICK :(4th round - CB Aaron Colvin or CB Keith McGill5th round - WR Josh Huff......or Donte Moncrief, Brandon Coleman, Robert Herron, Cody Hoffman, Cody Latimer.6th round - Logan Thomas as a TE prospect. Could be the gem of the draft!7th round - WR Michael Campanaro, WR Devin Street, or WR Quincy Enunwa.

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