They just need to have a conversation with ownership and talk about expectations. They went all-in for the Brady Era. The bill is due. Use the season to evaluate and reset. It’s a fine line between that and tanking. But the bill is due. Trying to stretch the window with Derek Carr or whoever isn’t realistic. Brady, Jensen, and co got BTFO in the first round. Wasn’t competitive. This 8-9 season was torturous. I think most of us tried sipping the hopium come playoff time but reality slapped us in the face.BucsNBills wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:58 amI mean you may be right about Carr, even though I think he still has good football left in him, but where I disagree is the idea that we HAVE to cut a bunch of starters, because we absolutely don't.MJW wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:43 am
5 or 6 wins.
It's like there's a cult of obtuseness infiltrating this board.
We are $50 mil over the cap.
We have a ton of useful free agents. Almost all will leave.
We have a bunch of likely cap cuts. Starters.
We have nobody behind these guys to step in. You know, these guys who just went 8-10 but were better than their backups.
We are going to have to do cap magic to field a 53 man roster next year.
And it looks like we're still going to be led by Toilet Bowles.
If Derek Carr was the guy to lead a team out of a situation like this, he had like 5 shots with the Raiders and failed to do so.
Egads.
Bowles likely already feels like his job is on the line along with Licht if they both torpedo this team into the ground after winning the SB two years ago. Which means they're almost certainly not going to go into a full rebuild mod(which I believe we should) so you should probably get used to the idea that we're going to retain a lot of the current starters and just kick the can down the road.
The roster needs reset. The cap needs reset. I can tolerate a big step back if there’s a plan. What I can’t tolerate is being fake competitive to save their asses.