Duncan Idaho's Compendium of Comprehensive Offseason Plans

[Couch-Potato]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

How do you intend to address the WR room?

You can't 'run it back' with this team. And if you retain Sneed and Jones, that's what you're committing to.

A) 'Run it back' rarely works
B) This ain't a good enough squad to do that with anyway.

It needs a fairly significant roster shakeup and bringing back both Sneed and Jones will prevent that.

Like O.City says, if you keep Jones and Sneed you can afford to draft a WR RD 1 or flip a pick for a guy like Hopkins. TEN might be more willing to do so now that Vrabel is out. If you go with a RD 1 WR maybe you find some money for a small contract for a guy like Renfrow to be your #3. Likewise, if you can get a guy like Hopkins you can go OT in RD 1 and wait until the mid-rounds for a #3 WR.

Also restructuring doesn't have to be catastrophic for the future of our cap. For instance, if you convert $10m of Mahomes Salary to Signing Bonus then that $10m is now spread from 2024 season at $10m, to the next 5 seasons at $2m each, and if the cap is going up by say $20m a year then you're good. The impact becomes less and less each season as long as you don't abuse it too much.

[Couch-Potato]

Originally Posted by Couch-Potato

Like O.City says, if you keep Jones and Sneed you can afford to draft a WR RD 1 or flip a pick for a guy like Hopkins. TEN might be more willing to do so now that Vrabel is out. If you go with a RD 1 WR maybe you find some money for a small contract for a guy like Renfrow to be your #3. Likewise, if you can get a guy like Hopkins you can go OT in RD 1 and wait until the mid-rounds for a #3 WR.

Also restructuring doesn't have to be catastrophic for the future of our cap. For instance, if you convert $10m of Mahomes Salary to Signing Bonus then that $10m is now spread from 2024 season at $10m, to the next 5 seasons at $2m each, and if the cap is going up by say $20m a year then you're good. The impact becomes less and less each season as long as you don't abuse it too much.

I'd add that this might be the right strategy with J. Taylor. He's leading the league in penalties and not impressing anyone. We're locked into a sizable contract with him until at least next offseason. If he's absolutely terrible in the playoffs maybe you decide to cut your loss but need cap space to replace him, so maybe you restructure and bench or cut him, and bring in someone else with that cap space and pay the dead cap price for Taylor's restructure over the next 5 years. Not ideal, but something you might do to reduce the impact of a potentially poor decision.