[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by New World Order

I'm in agreement with you for the most part.

I have no idea what kind of deal Foster will receive. Maybe he would be open to no guarantees in order to sign with a potential SB winning team. If so, as you said, you sign him no problem.

I still wouldn't have a problem taking a bit of a risk and giving him some guaranteed money to compete with Ragland. If he beats out Ragland, then you cut him and recoup some of the money you gave to Foster.

I just don't have a good feeling about our LB corps. They are by far the worst positional group on our defense and I'm willing to gamble in order to improve that position.

I just think we need to re-calibrate how we view the position for as long as Spags is here.

That's a complementary position group in his defense. He builds around his DL and his secondary; the LBs are there to be piecemealed and matched up as needed.

I think this team will be scrimping/scraping at LB for as long as Spags (or his progeny) are running the show. It's gonna be an offense first team anyway so that's where the most cap space will go, then you'll see the DL, then the secondary, then finally they'll put together a LB corps with what they have left and they'll figure out a way to make it work.

When you embrace the fact that a position group somewhere is gonna suffer to keep us under the cap, I think you realize that situational deployment of cheaper players w/ particular skill-sets is the way to go. And to me, Foster has a largely redundant skill-set with Ragland and even Niemann on board.