[Coogs]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

At this point I'm content with a re-set year.

There are just so damn many unknowns. If any of the moves the Chargers, Broncos and Bills have made come to full fruition, Za'darius Smith won't do shit to change how we stack up there.

They're pushing a whole lot of chips in for a year or two and soon enough they'll find themselves where we presently are. Okay.

But to just try to keep it running in the red when we have no idea if we even HAVE to strikes me as unnecessary. These moves may just fizzle out. They're all older guys on the backsides of their respective careers (with a few smaller exceptions).

If you give them their most likely 50% outcomes for all the signings, NONE of these teams are actually appreciably better than we are. With or without Smith.

And man, we can't just keep kicking the can. It's gonna hit us REALLY hard and then the question won't be 'can we sign Za'Darius Smith' but rather 'can we keep La'Jarius Sneed...'?

And **** that. I'm not at all interested in losing Sneed in 2 years because we had to have Smith next season.

At some point you have to decompress and I think we've reached that point. The more you try to move numbers around and see how it impacts next years cap (and then see that as tough as things are now, they'll be orders of magnitude tougher next season if we do these things), the more you realize that we've probably reached a puke point on how aggressive we can be.

Just go after the young vets who appear to be ascending. Or hell, at least appear to be healthy.

And then tell Patrick he's gonna get to throw the ball 650 times.

Absolutely on this whole post!