The 2026 Free Agency Thread

[Commander Wraith]

My issue with Finlay, who I like, and some of the others is that they're pointing to things that almost every team has as if somehow its unique to Washington or is special here. Yes, Washington has running backs who can catch the ball. So do a lot of teams. Yes, they have pass-catching tight ends. Again, so do a lot of teams—and in many cases, those teams have players with much stronger resumes than ours.

Then there's the "Blough will scheme it up" argument, which honestly makes me cringe. It's becoming the default explanation from some in the local media for why the receiver room isn't a concern. Grant Paulsen went there on a recent podcast, even while acknowledging that Sean McVay—Keim has said he heard the same thing—admitted he struggled as a first-year play caller and really took a leap in Year 2.

So Grant, who I also like, is essentially saying Blough is going to have rookie growing pains while simultaneously treating him as the secret weapon that's going to make this receiver group work. That's a lot of rationalizing for me.

Look, maybe all of the best-case scenarios happen. Maybe Ben Sinnott turns into a star. Maybe Luke McCaffrey develops into the kind of player his brother became. Maybe Blough breaks the mold and is an outstanding play caller right away. Maybe Rachaad White becomes prime Austin Ekeler as a receiving back.

Could all of that happen? Sure. I don't know.

What I do know is that's a whole lot of maybes. If you're trying to build a legitimate contender, you don't want your offense resting on that many optimistic projections.

Even Keim, who's become more supportive of the offseason moves, has repeatedly said this roster has a major problem if Terry McLaurin gets hurt because there's no true No. 2 receiver to step into that role. To me, that's the biggest issue of all. Every team would miss its No. 1 receiver. But I think Washington would be hurt far more than most because there's no proven player behind Terry capable of carrying that load. That's the risk I've had a hard time getting past.

lol, sign Diggs and I endorse everything. But its tough for me to look at this team playing with this tough schedule and thinking stuff like wow will Blough dazzle and or yeah our Z isn't getting open but hey we can throw to Racaad White try to stop that. Or pretend Zach Ertz never existed and go wow Jayden now has a TE as his 2nd target how novel.

I generally agree with your take here. If Terry goes down, that’s likely a major problem for the offense. Chig (and the other TEs) and White (and the other backs) don’t look to be such major upgrades that will paper over the receiver concerns. And asking Blough to be a good (let alone great) play caller off the bat - particularly one that can overcome an apparent lack of high end personnel - isn’t practical.

Where I differ is that I don’t know that we need Luke/Sinnott/White/Blough/etc to be stars. It’s almost certainly going to be a “by committee” venture. What we need from our pass catchers is quality run blocking, to occasionally run routes that clear out defenders, and to sell run blocking on PA (and then take advantage when the ball occasionally comes their way).

Perhaps the more crucial factor is what we need from the scheme - for guys to be used to their strengths:

Williams and Lane: to separate, find holes in zones, run choice routes and routes to pull defenders out of the run game.
Dyami and Luke: wr screens, occasional deep shots, plus run blocking with short/intermediate routes off PA
Chig/Sinnott: run away from backers, sell PA, not lose to backers/safeties (and occasionally corners) in the run game
Terry: to take advantage of getting moved around and (continue) to win on deep shots
Bates: block his face off, sell PA on occasional TE leaks
White: continue to be a quality pass catcher and not be a bum when he’s handed the ball
Jefferson: be that chain mover ala Ertz
Burks is the tricky one. I’d probably go with run block and sell PA.

Bill is kind of an exception IMO. He’s the one (aside from Lane not dropping the ball) that needs to make strides with his weaknesses (vs being used to his strengths) - to take what is blocked, not put the ball on the ground, and to make some strides in pass pro.


Regarding Blough, I think the hope is about the scheme vs the play calling. A scheme that makes life easier on the oline via more called runs and lots of PA, and that makes life easier on the pass catchers by not relying as heavily on winning 1 on 1 matchups. It’ll put more on Jayden’s plate, but at this point, I feel comfortable in him being able to handle it. I also think that in terms of play calling, while I expect it will almost certainly come with some struggles, I wonder if Blough may have a bit of an advantage over someone like McVay due to his time at qb in both the college and pros, and playing under multiple coaches/offenses.


Now, with all of that said, there is still an element of relying on hope/potential, and I’m with you in that I’d feel a lot more comfortable if we had another proven pass catcher. I also agree with an opinion of yours that you’ve expressed in other posts (I’m paraphrasing here) that while things could work and we could have a pretty good offense (primarily because of Jayden)… we should be shooting for the Super Bowl, not just pretty good. Adding someone like Diggs makes that aim more attainable.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Appreciate the discussion you’re trying to have here, but the very idea of the hypothetical I find repellant. Because it basically confirms my fears about our budget, there would be zero reason not to pursue both in that scenario. Chig isn’t even very highly paid in the grand scheme and wasn’t a super hot commodity, he’s at like 3/$27M. The idea that we only signed a TE upgrade because we missed on WR upgrades is a big part of my whole issue with this operation right now.

Same thing with the idea that Pierce would’ve put a dent in their defensive spending (and implied again, no Chig), because they can either only do one thing at a time or don’t want to actually spend the cap dollars, because the real dollars are intimidating.

I don’t know why I should take this franchise’s chances of winning a Super Bowl more seriously than they in the building do. So I won’t. This isn’t a serious operation until they prove that it is. I take Keim’s word on this as pretty close to gospel (unless the team just thinks this is effective “be careful what you wish for when it comes to WR, if you liked the rest of our offseason” messaging, and is pushing that out to local journos, which would be a misread imo) so I don’t see this as an iteration of the many staffs we’ll have under Harris that has a realistic shot at ever going all-in and going all the way.

I’ll hope they learn their lesson after this year. I hope in the meantime they enjoy the money they’ve been dutifully saving up and rolling forward for Jayden Daniels’ future extension, while they’ve been hindering him in actually earning it as if he already has Patrick Mahomes’ resume.

I want to be clear, my preference would be to sign both. But that apparently wasn't in the cards according to Keim.

So, your answer is, "neither options is good enough." And I tend to agree.

However, if those were the two choices, based on what Keim said, what I'm curious about is, would be people care more one way or the other? I personally don't. I would still feel the same way with +Doubs - Chig as +Chig - Doubs. But I'm wondering if that's the case for others.

Maybe it's just a different lens on the conversation which has been circling. I heard Keim say it, and I thought it was an interesting question.

What I do think, based on the reporting is THEY believe it to be solving the same problem in a different way. I hope they're right about that.

 

[SkinsFTW]

Does anyone else find a disturbing that the 76ers roster of 5 has much more talent than our roster of 22?

Meanwhile we have cap room to sign pretty much anybody x2.

They go out a pick up Jaylen Brown and Lebron yet we can't even get a decent RB or WR2.

Another couple years of this BS and the "sell the team" crowd is going to return.

 

[Always Commander Never Captain]

Question to the group:

Keim said on one of his last podcasts, if they got Pierce, they might not have gotten some of the defensive guys, and if they got Doubs, they probably wouldn't have gotten Chig.

So, thought experiment: let's assume for a minute we weren't getting Pierce, so he's out. But let's say we get Doubs instead of Chig. There is no option to get both. We might/might not have gotten another TE. What Keim said is when they didn't get Doubs, they pivoted (his word) to Chig. So I'm assuming he was plan C.

Would you feel better, worse or the same if the WRs and TEs were

WR: Terry, Doubs, Williams, McCaffery, Lane + one of Van Jefferson/Burks/DBrown
TE: Sinnot, Bates, Yankof or a second tier TE from FA (I'm not sure who, but not one of Likely, Otton, Chig, Kolar of Bellinger who all were 24M+ and seemingly would be out of the price range after signing Doubs.)

vs.
WR: Terry, Williams, McCaffery, Lane, + 2 of Van Jefferson/Burks/DBrown
TE: Chig, Bates, Sinnott

With the obvious ideal scenario that they get Doubs + Chig off the table, would you feel any differently in either scenario?

I will say, while I think the WR group would be markedly better, the TE group would not, and I think they might cancel each other out. Doubs would have to pick up the production from Ertz, and we'd be counting on Sinnott to "get it" which he hasn't shown at all yet.

It's unclear, but that could have been the case. Basically everyone has reported that:

• Plan A was Pierce
  • didn't happen so they immediately switched to Plan B
• Plan B was Doubs
  • didn't happen so they immediately switched to Plan C
• Plan C was Chig

We know it happened in that order, and the switch only happened when the prior guys went elsewhere. It's been reported that if we got Pierce the rest of the FA strategy would have changed.

But...if we got Doubs as Plan B, would that have precluded us from also going Chig afterwards? That's the unclear part. The talks would not have immediately happened upon signing Doubs. But perhaps they would have come back around to offense after a few days and seeing where the market was. I believe I read somewhere that if we landed Pierce, that would have been it on offense. Definitely would not have gotten Doubs or Chig. But I don't believe I read that about Doubs & Chig as a combo. Defensive additions might have changed. Like we might have gotten Doubs + Chig but not Chaisson + Omenihu at Edge.

As it is. After Plan A + B failed. Plan C was basically it for anything more than Vet Minimum on offense. The front office viewed any extra money that wasn't Vet Min would be better spent on Defense, where the FA pool was better.

 

[Conn]

I want to be clear, my preference would be to sign both. But that apparently wasn't in the cards according to Keim.

So, your answer is, "neither options is good enough." And I tend to agree.

However, if those were the two choices, based on what Keim said, what I'm curious about is, would be people care more one way or the other? I personally don't. I would still feel the same way with +Doubs - Chig as +Chig - Doubs. But I'm wondering if that's the case for others.

Maybe it's just a different lens on the conversation which has been circling. I heard Keim say it, and I thought it was an interesting question.

What I do think, based on the reporting is THEY believe it to be solving the same problem in a different way. I hope they're right about that.

Yeah, totally not directed towards you, but at the apparent truth of what Keim is saying. I find it so disappointing. Both positions (and the defense) needed fixing, so the idea that actually getting a WR would have damaged the chances at the other moves we made, because of their self-imposed cash cap and not the league cap…it severely disrupts my ability to believe in this iteration of Harris’ operation. I don’t know the “why’s” behind these decisions, and things can change, but if they are not willing to invest 100% towards going and winning a superbowl with this staff and Daniels on this contract, then I’m equally unwilling to believe in them. It’s only fair.

I shudder to imagine what our roster will look like if/when Daniels actually earns that contract they’re already pinching pennies over, if our drafting does not drastically improve in the meantime.

 

[HTTR]

I want to be clear, my preference would be to sign both. But that apparently wasn't in the cards according to Keim.

So, your answer is, "neither options is good enough." And I tend to agree.

However, if those were the two choices, based on what Keim said, what I'm curious about is, would be people care more one way or the other? I personally don't. I would still feel the same way with +Doubs - Chig as +Chig - Doubs. But I'm wondering if that's the case for others.

Maybe it's just a different lens on the conversation which has been circling. I heard Keim say it, and I thought it was an interesting question.

What I do think, based on the reporting is THEY believe it to be solving the same problem in a different way. I hope they're right about that.

I’d much rather have Chig than Doubs. But like Conn, what bugs me too is the revelation that according to Keim it was one or the other, even though they have enough cap room that they could’ve signed both and still had plenty leftover. This is year three of the ownership group spending well below the cap, and I suspect we’re going to get exactly what they’ve paid for which is one of the least talented rosters top to bottom in the league.
And I can’t speak for Conn, but I think this is the same point he is making. While Dobbs versus Chig could be an interesting debate, the much larger elephant in the room is that this is more evidence that we may have an ownership group who isn’t as fully committed to the product on the field as they claim to be. And I’ll happily stop saying it if they ever prove me wrong, but this is year three and I’m still waiting. I’m not getting any younger, and neither is Jayden‘s Rookie contract.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

It's unclear, but that could have been the case. Basically everyone has reported that:

• Plan A was Pierce
  • didn't happen so they immediately switched to Plan B
• Plan B was Doubs
  • didn't happen so they immediately switched to Plan C
• Plan C was Chig

We know it happened in that order, and the switch only happened when the prior guys went elsewhere. It's been reported that if we got Pierce the rest of the FA strategy would have changed.

But...if we got Doubs as Plan B, would that have precluded us from also going Chig afterwards? That's the unclear part. The talks would not have immediately happened upon signing Doubs. But perhaps they would have come back around to offense after a few days and seeing where the market was. I believe I read somewhere that if we landed Pierce, that would have been it on offense. Definitely would not have gotten Doubs or Chig. But I don't believe I read that about Doubs & Chig as a combo. Defensive additions might have changed. Like we might have gotten Doubs + Chig but not Chaisson + Omenihu at Edge.

As it is. After Plan A + B failed. Plan C was basically it for anything more than Vet Minimum on offense. The front office viewed any extra money that wasn't Vet Min would be better spent on Defense, where the FA pool was better.

So, for what it's worth, I'm just going off of what Keim said. Is he right? I dunno. But he was pretty clear in his last pod that if they got Doubs, it would have been in replacement to Chig.

There is absolutely a world where they would do both, but that's not what Keim said, which was the genesis of this thought exercise.

 

[SkinsFTW]

So, for what it's worth, I'm just going off of what Keim said. Is he right? I dunno. But he was pretty clear in his last pod that if they got Doubs, it would have been in replacement to Chig.

There is absolutely a world where they would do both, but that's not what Keim said, which was the genesis of this thought exercise.

So now VOR is a Keim truther as well?

What happened? 🤭

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Yeah, totally not directed towards you, but at the apparent truth of what Keim is saying. I find it so disappointing. Both positions (and the defense) needed fixing, so the idea that actually getting a WR would have damaged the chances at the other moves we made, because of their self-imposed cash cap and not the league cap…it severely disrupts my ability to believe in this iteration of Harris’ operation. I don’t know the “why’s” behind these decisions, and things can change, but if they are not willing to invest 100% towards going and winning a superbowl with this staff and Daniels on this contract, then I’m equally unwilling to believe in them. It’s only fair.

I shudder to imagine what our roster will look like if/when Daniels actually earns that contract they’re already pinching pennies over, if our drafting does not drastically improve in the meantime.

I think that's really fair.

That said, I do think we need to acknowledge they did spend a lot of cash money this off-season. I think the bigger problem is they kindof took a year off not signing guys, so everything shifted to one year, and that's a hell of a big check to write.

My friend Jean Claude says that they team paid out $63.65m of signing bonus money in 2026 for new FAs. They also paid Tunsil $32.5m in signing bonus and a couple smaller signing bonuses for Reeves and Wylie (~$3m total). That's close to $100m in signing bonuses in one year. That's not nothing.

Additionally, they guaranteed salaries of about $120m for new FAs, and add to that the guaranteed amount for Tunsil ($61m.) That's a good sum of cash. Remember the owners have to put guaranteed money in escrow, so any guaranteed money is essentially money spent at the time it's guaranteed. So that's $180m of cash which had to be set aside, either paid as signing bonuses or put into escrow.

Compare that to 2025, and it was only $25m in signing bonuses to new FA, and $~60m in guaranteed money at signing. The only major re-signing was Terry, and that was team friendly, though it did have a $30m signing bonus and $44m guaranteed at signing. But they were WAY below what they did this year.

The problem is they took 2025 off. They needed to do in 2025 what they did in 2026, and then do it again in 2026. And draft well. Then we'd be talking.

But they essentially did squadoosh in 2025 from a FA perspective. The 2 biggest signings that off-season were trades, Tunsil and Deebo. The re-signing of McLaurin was a big move, but it wasn't Tunsil level big from a money perspective.

 

[burgold]

Does anyone else find a disturbing that the 76ers roster of 5 has much more talent than our roster of 22?

Meanwhile we have cap room to sign pretty much anybody x2.

They go out a pick up Jaylen Brown and Lebron yet we can't even get a decent RB or WR2.

Another couple years of this BS and the "sell the team" crowd is going to return.

You do realize that Lebron was picked up for 8m for 2 years, right? He signed for the vet minimum. Effectively, the 76ers just did what we just did with Bobby Wagner except we paid proportionately more for Bobby.

I get that everyone is unhappy with the WR room and there's nothing more fun than beating the dead horse over and over and over and over and over, but are you unhappy with what they did at LB, DE, NT, S, CB (uh oh), TE, and RB? The Commanders did a lot of work this offseason in rebuilding the entire team. They whiffed at C and WR, but in terms of gross expenditure they outspent almost every team this year. I think they're fourth.

I also want to point out that neither Pierce nor Daubs are the best at their positions. They were simply the best available and while they would have been upgrades to what we have how long do you want to lock yourself in at a high first day free agent price for a C+ receiver (who from every report didn't want to come here.)

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

So now VOR is a Keim truther as well?

What happened? 🤭

Of course. I believe everything I hear on the radio.

Seriously, I have literally no idea if it's true. I said that above. For the purposes of this discussion, I'm assuming it's true becasue, well, it was a slightly different way to frame the same discussion we've been having and I thought it would be worth a shot at being somewhat creative.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

I also want to point out that neither Pierce nor Daubs are the best at their positions. They were simply the best available and while they would have been upgrades to what we have how long do you want to lock yourself in at a high first day free agent price for a C+ receiver (who from every report didn't want to come here.)

I get the love for Pierce. 1000 yards, a 21+ Yards per catch, 6/7 TDs. He's a deep threat receiver that we don't have. He isn't a #1 in my opinion, he's Desean Jackson. He can do one thing really well. (Though not as well as Jackson.) Interestingly, he had a 55% catch rate last year, 47 receptions on 84 targets. That's not great.

He's a fantastic complement to a true #1 receiver. Defenses HAVE to account for him, because he has the ability to make a big play on every play. But he's only going to get a few targets a game, he's often a decoy. I think if we had gotten him, Terry would have had a 1200 yard season. He was worth chasing, though I think he was overpaid.

I think Doubs is a good receiver. I never quite got the absolute fascination with him. He was good, he was available, I'm glad we tried to get him. But he had 724 yards on 55 receptions, a 13.2 yards per reception average. That's .... good.

But it's not like out of this world great.

Would he have helped? Undoubtedly. Is he the difference between 8-9 and 12-5? I don't think so. But maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Always Commander Never Captain]

So, for what it's worth, I'm just going off of what Keim said. Is he right? I dunno. But he was pretty clear in his last pod that if they got Doubs, it would have been in replacement to Chig.

There is absolutely a world where they would do both, but that's not what Keim said, which was the genesis of this thought exercise.

Oh, I misread your post. So you're indicating Keim has now changed his tune on free agency or gotten a more firm understanding of what the method was? Definitely possible I was simply mistaken on what Keim said months ago. I thought the whole thing with Pierce's price tag restricted further activity, but Doub wasn't in that same boat being much cheaper. I could have been wrong.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Oh, I misread your post. So you're indicating Keim has now changed his tune on free agency or gotten a more firm understanding of what the method was? Definitely possible I was simply mistaken on what Keim said months ago. I thought the whole thing with Pierce's price tag restricted further activity, but Doub wasn't in that same boat being much cheaper. I could have been wrong.

I'd have to go back and re-listen, but I am pretty sure he said if they got Doubs, they might not have gone after Chig. They might have eventually, I'm not sure, but he said that one thing led to the next led to the next, and the thing that led them to Chig was not getting Doubs.

 

[burgold]

I get the love for Pierce. 1000 yards, a 21+ Yards per catch, 6/7 TDs. He's a deep threat receiver that we don't have. He isn't a #1 in my opinion, he's Desean Jackson. He can do one thing really well. (Though not as well as Jackson.) Interestingly, he had a 55% catch rate last year, 47 receptions on 84 targets. That's not great.

He's a fantastic complement to a true #1 receiver. Defenses HAVE to account for him, because he has the ability to make a big play on every play. But he's only going to get a few targets a game, he's often a decoy. I think if we had gotten him, Terry would have had a 1200 yard season. He was worth chasing, though I think he was overpaid.

I think Doubs is a good receiver. I never quite got the absolute fascination with him. He was good, he was available, I'm glad we tried to get him. But he had 724 yards on 55 receptions, a 13.2 yards per reception average. That's .... good.

But it's not like out of this world great.

Would he have helped? Undoubtedly. Is he the difference between 8-9 and 12-5? I don't think so. But maybe I'm wrong.

I'm just insanely bored of Merry Go Round.

It's beating the dead horse. It's the dog chasing its tail. It's the insanity of running out the same argument every time and thinking it will change the past. It's the same obsessive compulsive fixation on one group and ignoring every other possible story. Really, there are other things to talk about it. Relitigating this for the umpteenth time isn't going to save the rain forest, the spotted owl, the whales, or make us miss the days when Snyder owned the team.

 

[Always Commander Never Captain]

I get the love for Pierce. 1000 yards, a 21+ Yards per catch, 6/7 TDs. He's a deep threat receiver that we don't have. He isn't a #1 in my opinion, he's Desean Jackson. He can do one thing really well. (Though not as well as Jackson.) Interestingly, he had a 55% catch rate last year, 47 receptions on 84 targets. That's not great.

He's a fantastic complement to a true #1 receiver. Defenses HAVE to account for him, because he has the ability to make a big play on every play. But he's only going to get a few targets a game, he's often a decoy. I think if we had gotten him, Terry would have had a 1200 yard season. He was worth chasing, though I think he was overpaid.

That's the big argument in the off-season, most front offices were quotes as saying they thought Pierce was going to develop into a WR1, but the usage/scheme limited him. They traded away Michael Pittman with his 111 targets, and plan on giving Pierce more of those routes. So it's a gamble by the Colts (and by extension us with our offer surpassing theirs) that Pierce could do more with expanded usage.

I think Doubs is a good receiver. I never quite got the absolute fascination with him. He was good, he was available, I'm glad we tried to get him. But he had 724 yards on 55 receptions, a 13.2 yards per reception average. That's .... good.

But it's not like out of this world great.

Would he have helped? Undoubtedly. Is he the difference between 8-9 and 12-5? I don't think so. But maybe I'm wrong.

Doubs is a solid WR2. He plays Outside WR. He averages like 700 yards and 6 TDs with a high Success Rate on normal volume. 80-90 targets with those numbers is good for a WR2 that plays Outside. Especially the TD/Target ratio being solid. Jakobi Meyers in Jacksonville is someone similar. Normal WR2 target share, high success rate, good TD/Target ratio, good yardage. Every team loves a WR2 like that.

Not everybody has to be Tee Higgins or CeeDee Lamb with 110 targets as the WR2.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Doubs is a solid WR2. He plays Outside WR. He averages like 700 yards and 6 TDs with a high Success Rate on normal volume. 80-90 targets with those numbers is good for a WR2 that plays Outside. Especially the TD/Target ratio being solid. Jakobi Meyers in Jacksonville is someone similar. Normal WR2 target share, high success rate, good TD/Target ratio, good yardage. Every team loves a WR2 like that.

Not everybody has to be Tee Higgins or CeeDee Lamb with 110 targets as the WR2.

Yeah. That's kindof what I said. He's good. Maybe he's close to the best of the good.

He's just not Higgins or Lamb, and the way some were talking you'd think that's what he was.

FWIW, if he was ever really made available, I was all about making a run to trade for Higgins. Having McLaurin and Higgins? That would be really exciting.

 

[Always Commander Never Captain]

I mean, Higgins and Lamb are paid way more than Doubs, so those people comparing them need to step back a bit.

 

[Conn]

I think that's really fair.

That said, I do think we need to acknowledge they did spend a lot of cash money this off-season.

I don’t care about this and am unmoved by it. It’s sleight-of-hand. It’s been explained many times that when you decide to actually sign a few larger outside FA’s in addition to filling depth, you’re going to have large individual year cash outlays just to fill the roster when you rely on so many 1-year deals season-over-season. I don’t accept it as a “yeah but” in comparison to the actual cap usage game (and the techniques the most competitive franchises use to manipulate it) that the league plays.

It does not move me. I didn’t ask Harris & Co. to buy this team if they couldn’t afford the cash outlay, I don’t care that they’re spending $2-3B on the stadium to increase the worth of their own investment, even though it’s cool. It’s their job, it’s their investment, and it is as self-serving as anything else. I didn’t ask someone who owns multiple other sports teams with their own large cash expenditures to buy ours, I just hope for the best and judge his ownership from my seat as a fan.

I like Harris so far and what he’s about, as far as anyone can like a billionaire who says the right things and stays out of obvious controversy. But I don’t care about his finances or consider his liquidity to be my problem or area of interest. He wanted to take on the honorable burden of stewarding this franchise (his paraphrased words) and he obviously wanted to make a lot of money long-term owning this franchise, as a businessman. He got a lot of other investors and money behind him to do it, and they want their dividends as well, I get it. He really needs to figure out how to do things at an elite level or he’s not going to be a popular owner when it’s all said and done.

The yearly cash expenditure on the roster is not my concern (and as has been argued many times, is not an accurate way to represent actual resource allocation and strategy vs. peers) and is not a mitigating factor for any of my criticisms.

Harris will have every opportunity to be considered an elite owner but he won’t ever be if his operation doesn’t eventually rival the best/most competitive/most effectively-aggressive year to year. I’m not expecting miracles or even to be #1 in everything, if the process is good over time. I’m just not accepting of the excuses when I see the cap space we’re allowed to spend under the rules not being utilized, in favor of prioritizing a self-imposed cash cap that will never benefit the fanbase.

And it’s just math, as the cap grows every dollar not spent is worth proportionally less tomorrow than it is today, as contracts for the same level of players inflate and the cap is always growing. So rolling over copious amounts of cap to prepare for the contract we hope Daniels will earn, instead of making damn sure he earns it by spending more of it now, is not even the most efficient use of the cap. You want responsible leadership that takes the future into account of course, but you also want leadership that will strike when the iron is hot and spend whatever it takes when it makes sense (one of those times is when your QB is on a rookie contract, everyone knows that). Otherwise what is even the point of having some of these unethically wealthy dickheads spend their money on sports teams for our entertainment, if we still have to watch them solely prioritize their number-go-up god and can’t even get a Super Bowl out of the damn deal.

 

[Conn]

I'm just insanely bored of Merry Go Round.

It's beating the dead horse. It's the dog chasing its tail. It's the insanity of running out the same argument every time and thinking it will change the past. It's the same obsessive compulsive fixation on one group and ignoring every other possible story. Really, there are other things to talk about it. Relitigating this for the umpteenth time isn't going to save the rain forest, the spotted owl, the whales, or make us miss the days when Snyder owned the team.

So go have those other conversations?

The roster holes are almost always the #1 storyline going into any season. Maybe #2 behind the staff/coordinators when they change. Right now, that’s WR (and CB to many).

Not much else to discuss right now but nobody’s forcing you to partake

Thankfully training camp is right around the corner so there will be plenty to talk about. But WR will continue to be talked about.