Somehow despite all our cap space (going into our third straight year of being near the top) we never have an offseason like this, though. I’m not looking for reckless “Dream Team” bullshit but I really need AP to show some urgency and spend some money this offseason. He needs to be aggressive, we can keep a healthy cap future but this doesn’t need to be a thrift shop operation like it was under Bruce Allen.
And if it is, I’ll start having questions towards Josh Harris and wonder if he’s installing a strict ‘cash cap’ on AP that makes us operate more cheaply than we have to under the guise of keeping a healthy cap. If that’s the case we’ll never truly compete with the teams who are willing to play salary cap games and burn liquid cash to compete at the highest levels, instead we’ll have to draft really well and get lucky. Which is not looking realistic right now.
We need to be a team willing to spend cash. There’s no reason we can’t be, and we have the QB to justify it.
I'd be surprised if Harris put any breaks on Peters' spending considering reading about him, he supposedly is in a spend whatever you need mode to make this team a winner on every front.
To use a stock analogy, Peters approach is to buy companies on a discount, reasonable PE ratios, low risk moves -- Warren Buffett style. He doesn't like to shoot for the bigger high growth-more expensive stocks, no Apple, no Google, no Nvida, etc because if you buy them on the rise -- they can crash and you can look like a fool.
I think he'd defend it as low risk-high reward after season 1 because they almost made the SB that year so he doubled down on it two years in a row. And while he was mostly a successful value investor in year 2 -- Kinlaw looks like a good signing, Jakob Martin, Will Harris. He just didn't do enough. He swung for singles.
But everything I've read about him gives me confidence he will bounce back.
A. I've heard he's competitive as heck, insanely so, lives and dies by his successes and failures so this has to be eating at him
B. He flat out said he learns more from failures than successes
C. He clearly sees this as a SB window and the opportunity won't last forever. So I expect him to be aggressive.
There are three things they accomplished this season that IMO sets them up better for success next year.
A. I think they will regain their edge. lol I used the Rocky 3 analogy a lot this year including before the summer started. Like or not like Peters and Quinn, I got no doubt they are competitive as heck, work their asses off and will learn from this,
B. For Peters faults this off season he has IMO accomplished a key thing -- the O line, its strong and deep. Aside from QB that's the hardest position to build. If they add weapons to this team the work done on the O line should compound those additions ala the Eagles the previous season adding Barkley.
C. they realized Joe Whitt is a problem and the coaching on that side is a problem
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