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CROMWELL21
I think the Ogletree signing was the tip of the iceberg. But foresight to see signing Goff, Gurley, Donald, Cooks and Higbee would have been palatable if all remained awesome. Losing Littleton, and Fowler and Brockers could have been made up in the draft and free agency. But they aren't all superstars. Add in Talib, Peters and Ramsey...Peters cost draft picks, we gave him away and traded more draft picks for Ramsey. So now we have no draft capital and no cap money. This will all come to a rise next year when Goff is now in the spotlight. And you have to sign Johnson, Kupp and Ramsey. And you have another year of no first round picks. I think Trader Les has made his bed. I don't think he survives....McVay, short of a total collapse probably does. I'm not sure how much say he has on contracts. We built a super bowl team with a well managed and responsible team. Then things fell apart quickly due to mismanagement. That was the story in 2000. That's the story now.
Well first Snead is not in a position to determine contracts himself. He's clearly in on it but it does not come down to just him, the way it would with an UberGM type.
They built a superbowl team btw by adding to a deep team they inherited, and Snead was in on building that inherited talent.
As for next year, they have abundant cap space. Right now it's at 80+ M with the possibility of gaining more space by moving on from Whitworth, Cooks, and/or Hav. With moves like that, they could have up to 100 M in space. And that's with Goff and Donald and their contract numbers. That's plenty of room to sign 3-4 guys.
As for the guys they lost this year--some of that was money, but according to Rich Hammond, not all of it was:
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Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
I think it’s different on each side of the ball. On defense, they’re embracing change because of the 2019 inconsistency, and the new coordinator maybe emphasizes some different stuff. With Gurley, it’s very specific to him. It just didn’t make sense anymore.