The 2025 Free Agency Thread

I don't expect the same this year. I actually think we are going to regress a bit
I'm going to ask "why" but can you put the answer in the 2025 season thread so it doesn't derail the FA thread?
 
It just feels like we're blowing the QB window with old vets, replacement level rentals and if we keep dumping all our midround picks, that people love to credit how great AP is at finding talent at, by the time we need to resign JD we won't have our home grown talent.
I'd argue the opposite: if we stocked up on mid-round picks, I think we would potentially be blowing the window we have for the next 2 years, because we need immediate contributions, we can't really wait for "growth and development."

And let's be fair about dumping all of our mid-round picks. This year, we currently have 5 picks and the only rounds we don't have a pick in are the 3rd and 5th. Some of the draft capital we used to get Lattimore was from the Jahan Dotson trade. And we still have, even after the Tunsil, Deebo and Lattimore trades, our first and second this year. We're down a 3rd and a 5th. That's really not the difference between good depth and not good depth.

Tunsil is going to cost us a second and 4th next year, but there are ways to get those back.

If Tunsil gives us 4 productive years, which he certainly can, that's almost a 100% guarantee it would be more high-end production from the second-highest premier position on the field.
 
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By my count on Spotrac, we have 25 players who have current contracts beyond this upcoming season. 44 of our currently contracted players will be free agents in 2026.

So.... yeah....
This is another lasting issue from Ron Rivera and late Allen/whoever drafts.

The fact we have 9! players on the roster we drafted prior to 2024 is pittiful. And that's why Peters has to sign all these guys to one year deals. He doesn't want to get locked into old guys and commit future cap, but has to field a team, and preferably a competitive one RIGHT NOW.

You can't get young overnight. It takes 3-4 drafts and hitting on 4-5 players per draft. Then you have 20+ players you have drafted who are young. You'd LOVE 10 or so players from earlier drafts on second contracts. That means you drafted well and retained players.

Then you fill out the rest of the roster with other guys from hither and tither.

When you have 9! players from all drafts up until the most recent, you just can't do that.

Ironically, all 9 draft picks from last season are still on the roster. We'll see if the back-end guys develop.

But man. The roster Peter's inherited was just bad. And I know they keep saying they "recalibrated." They didn't. They took like maybe 7 pieces of furniture out of the house they liked, maybe a nice dining room table (Payne), a nice piece of art work (Cosmi), and a nice carpet (Quan Martin) and then they nuked the rest, house and all the remaining furniture.

If they hit on 4 or 5 draft picks, this year, and lets say 7 of the last year's picks hit, then this turning over 50% of the roster thing will slow down after next off-season.
 
And Hail Raiser I honestly don't think anybody is really violently disagreeing with you. Maybe trying to just talk you off the ledge a little bit. We'll see what happens. I'm going to enjoy the ride regardless, and hope you do to.
 
And Hail Raiser I honestly don't think anybody is really violently disagreeing with you. Maybe trying to just talk you off the ledge a little bit. We'll see what happens. I'm going to enjoy the ride regardless, and hope you do to.
I'm a little surprised that I'm alone on this hill, for sure.

I honestly really like most of the FAs that we brought in.

I just really hate trading away draft picks.
 
I'm a little surprised that I'm alone on this hill, for sure.

I honestly really like most of the FAs that we brought in.

I just really hate trading away draft picks.
My guess is when we start solidifying the roster that we will lose many of the Free agents who are on 1 year contracts. I believe with Daniels at QB and Quinn that these individuals will show great improvement so we will fill up with comp picks in the next few years.
 
And Hail Raiser I honestly don't think anybody is really violently disagreeing with you. Maybe trying to just talk you off the ledge a little bit. We'll see what happens. I'm going to enjoy the ride regardless, and hope you do to.

This is when I used to laugh my ass off whenever people defended all those dumb Snyder moves, such as the McNabb trade. I'd post that I thought Andy Reid knew that McNabb was done and Snyder was an idiot and that Shanahan would have never made that trade, then Art and 20 other posters would inform me of how he was actually elite, even though every time they brought some other random QB in they usually played better.

I'm thinking I don't really need to do that anymore. These guys seem to know what they are doing. It does suck to lose some picks but the players we'd find that have a chance to be as good as the ones we traded for are Blue Chip 1st rounders. We didn't trade any first rounders. I don't see any TJ Ducketts or old guys who used to be good being traded for yet. They also didn't sign any Adam Archuleta's who have no chance of fitting in the scheme or throw 30M a year at any contract year turds like Haynesworthless.
 
The only signing that makes me go WTF is Kinlaw still. Why did that dude deserve a 2x payday and it not be for just 1 year?

I have to guess that we had competition for him and since I haven't watched any of his games I have no idea what I'm talking about anyway lol.
 
The only signing that makes me go WTF is Kinlaw still. Why did that dude deserve a 2x payday and it not be for just 1 year?

I have to guess that we had competition for him and since I haven't watched any of his games I have no idea what I'm talking about anyway lol.
Yeah, I didn't even realize he was still in the league.
 
I'm a little surprised that I'm alone on this hill, for sure.

I honestly really like most of the FAs that we brought in.

I just really hate trading away draft picks.

I can’t speak for everyone here, but I thought we’d sign more top guys in FA, and obviously I didn’t see us sending pics for Tunsil, so I thought we’d have more of our capital.

In real time, I haven’t loved a lot of their moves. I didn’t love Deebo for a 5th. I wanted another speed guy to stretch the field.

I thought we’d land a younger, better CB, for instance. Maybe Stanley. Definitely an impact pass rusher.

And a lot of these DL guys, I didn’t even know who they were. That’s obviously not a rave review.

On the flip side, I LOVE the Tunsil signing. I think he should have very close to the impact Trent had in San Francisco. That move alone might be the best move any team has made this off season.

Really, I’m trying not to judge right now. If we get to training camp, and we haven’t found an impact edge and some exciting depth pieces, either in the draft, FA, or via trade, I’m going to be skeptical

That being said, I didn’t think we were an angry championship game caliber team last year. And while Jayden was great, our roster really did click.

Anyway, I think most of us don’t feel that differently from you fundamentally. I think a lot of us just view the offseason report card as incomplete, and we are withholding judgment until we see the final roster heading into training camp.
 
I'm a little surprised that I'm alone on this hill, for sure.

I honestly really like most of the FAs that we brought in.

I just really hate trading away draft picks.
Premier positions are QB, LT, WR, Edge, CB. In our division facing the Eagles I would add run stuffing DT.

We are set at QB.

I think it’s plain that Peter’s is trying to ensure we have answers at all those positions and realizes we can’t address them all just via the draft.

They seldom become available in free agency.

He’s using mid round draft picks and the fact we have the cap space to take on big contracts other teams need to shed to bring on top tier talent (sometimes with health issues) to make sure we address those positions.

WR - Samuels. Check
LT - Tunsil. Check
CB - Latimore. Check

Edge is outstanding. We took some swings in free agency and missed. Almost have to address that position in the first two rounds of the draft.

Free agency has largely been used to address depth.

There is a clear plan. It may or may not work - but there is a plan.
 
I don't think Ferrell is a lock for the roster. I think he's going to be fighting for it in training camp.

If we are doing the Elephant End with Wise/Kinlaw, that then reduces snaps in the rotation for conventional Edges. And Ferrell has no juice as a pass rusher to be opposite that Elephant End. You want someone whose fast and agile. The Seahawks drafted Bruce Irvin in the 1st round to do that. Irvin crushed the combine.

James Pearce Jr is someone who could be that, although his combine was a smidge worse (but still good).
 
That's actually a pretty significant loss for the Cowboys.
Will Grier is currently the second QB on their depth chart right now. They need to bring in another vet and might look to draft someone mid rounds to become to the primary backup.
 

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