98Redbird
Cheesehead
I guess I can just see it going this way...
We let Shields go (who I think is our one must sign FA) and TT does not go after a difference maker on the defensive side of the ball. Shields' contract would have/should have been anywhere from 5-8 million a year I would assume, if we are not going to pay him, then who? Really, REALLY hope it's not Raji.
Without paying Shields, paying Nelson and Cobb aren't going to be an issue at all. We've already got our big two locked up in Rodgers and Matthews. We would literally have one difference maker on that side of the ball in CM. That's it. Unless he's refusing to go after Shields because he want's to spend that money elsewhere (Byrd/Ward/Orakpo/Etc....) This just doesn't make any sense to me.
It was bad enough trying to fill holes on our D when we needed a FS, ILB and DL... now adding CB to the list? No way you're filling all of these area's through the draft alone. And no way filling one of them through the draft and then bringing in 3 low tier FA's is going to fix it either. I would hope after getting our ***** handed to us the past few years by certain teams in the NFC (who are active in FA in the right way), that he would begin to see this trend...
We let Shields go (who I think is our one must sign FA) and TT does not go after a difference maker on the defensive side of the ball. Shields' contract would have/should have been anywhere from 5-8 million a year I would assume, if we are not going to pay him, then who? Really, REALLY hope it's not Raji.
Without paying Shields, paying Nelson and Cobb aren't going to be an issue at all. We've already got our big two locked up in Rodgers and Matthews. We would literally have one difference maker on that side of the ball in CM. That's it. Unless he's refusing to go after Shields because he want's to spend that money elsewhere (Byrd/Ward/Orakpo/Etc....) This just doesn't make any sense to me.
It was bad enough trying to fill holes on our D when we needed a FS, ILB and DL... now adding CB to the list? No way you're filling all of these area's through the draft alone. And no way filling one of them through the draft and then bringing in 3 low tier FA's is going to fix it either. I would hope after getting our ***** handed to us the past few years by certain teams in the NFC (who are active in FA in the right way), that he would begin to see this trend...