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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
So this deal went from a 'meh' in my book to officially goddamn reeruned.
Congrats, Dorsey - you've offered a contract with absolutely ZERO upside baked into it. The absolute best case scenario is that you pay $8 million for 60% of your defensive snaps to be covered by a solid run-stopper...in an era where teams are passing more than ever and your offense can't win in a shootout.
So next season we'll be paying our 3rd safety, backup T, 2-down nose (and potential backup Nose if Howard and Bailey are healthy) and Punter about $19 million.
We're also giving Alex Smith $9 million more than we'd have had to give Nick Foles for virtually identical production.
Dorsey's had a shit offseason. The LDT signing is fine (seriously, look at what the OL market did this off-season, that contract is reasonable), the Berry extension is okay given the contracts given out to far lesser players like Reshad Jones.
But that's $18 million in cap space set ablaze for rotational players, backups and !@#$ing punters all because Dorsey and Reid are risk-averse. That money is ****ing gone and in 2 years when we're trying to figure out how to retain Peters, Jones or Hill - remember the $18 million we don't have in rollover because we just had to spend it on guys that will play 50% of the time or on special teams.
That's all this is - they're spending scared right now; they don't want to draft someone to replace these part-time players and have them not work out then try to cover the hole on the fly (y'know - actually coach). For ****'s sake, they couldn't even 'risk' a change from Smith to Foles even though Smith showed nothing to suggest that there's a next step for him to take and the offense showed no decline under Foles.
Dorsey's tendency towards drafting a year ahead is coming into sharp focus. We've seen it at pro-active but you can just as easily see it as being defensive. He has to have his replacement in-house for a season before he's going to take that risk.
So you know what that means? That there is a ZERO percent chance that Smith is gone before 2018 if we don't take a QB in this draft. Absolutely zero. He and Reid will not start a rookie QB. They're too risk averse.
This is a stupid mother****ing use of resources. Absolutely insane.
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I don't agree with this signing either bc it screams need and overpaying. They know they can't find a NT in the draft so they blew a shit load on this guy.
They know it's now or never. They are going to ride this Alex Smith train into the ****ing ground if they have to. Andy really believes he can get to the SB with Alex. He really does.
There are only 2 good things about this:
1. It's only one year.
2. We didn't pay Poe $10+ million.
Next month will tell us all we need to know. If they don't draft a QB in the first 2 rds and get the same mid rd crap developmental player, I'll be golfing on Sunday's this fall instead of watching this team.