** Off-Season Plan Thread **

my offseason hopes are simple, eugene monroe and houston, from oakland,

 

Here is my offseason plan thread as of today:

Cut:
CJ
Wimbley
Stewart
Fokou
Stevens
Leaves us with over $23 million to spend

Re-sign:
Pollard- 2yr/$7 million
Pito- 2yr/$4 million
Battle- 1yr/750k
That takes us down to about $19 million left to spend.

Free Agents:

Brandon Spikes- 4yr/$15 million
Linval Joseph- 4yr/$25 million
Leaves us with a 9 mil enough to spend some extra money on depth after the draft.

NFL Draft:

1st round- Trade back to pick up a 3rd rounder; then draft Taylor Lewan
2nd round- Louchiez Purifoy CB Florida
3rd round- Dominque Easley DE Florida
4th round- David Fales QB San Jose State
5th round- Marion Grice RB Arizona State
6th round- Aj Tarpley LB Stanford
7th round- Tevin Reese WR Baylor
(I used walterfootball and nfl.com for my round projections for these guys)

Depth Chart:

QB- Locker, Fitz, Fales, Wilson
RB- Greene/Grice, Battle
FB- Mooney
WR- Wright, Washington, Hunter, Reese, Preston
TE- Walker, Thompson
LT- Roos, Stingly/Lewan
LG- Levitre, FA Depth guy
C- Schwenke, FA Depth guy
RG- Warmack, FA Depth guy
RT-Lewan/Stingly
LE- Morgan/Easley/Pito
NT-Joseph, Hill, Martin
RE- Casey, Klug, Martin
OLB- Ayers, Gooden, Edwards/Morgan
ILB- Spikes, Tarpley
ILB- McCarthy, Tarpley
OLB- Brown, Gooden, Tarpley
CB- McCourty, Wreh-Wilson/Coty/Purifoy, Wooten,
FS- Griffin, Wilson
SS- Pollard, Wilson
K- Bironas
P- Kern

I like that we have a lot of defensive lineman that we can rotate through. Still a little thin at LB, but I think that defense looks pretty nasty.

 

sign vick, keep locker and draft manziel. start locker he'll play til week five, then vick will be ready play til week 11 or 12 and then it's johnny football time. 12-4 and a SB

 

Butler might be younger then Dansby but I don't think he is that good of a player in all honesty; I have never been impressed any time I see him play at least. Dansby has about 2-3 good years of football left in the tank and would give us a guy that can mentor all of our other young linebackers.

I'm a fan of trying to get guy to sign before they hit Free Agency as you have more leverage to get them to re sign with you.

A) I'm not a fan of having starters return punts or kicks.
B) This lets Purifoy concentrate on being a CB and learning the defensive playbook.
C) Preston would at best be our forth WR where as Jones can challenge Hunter for the 3rd spot on the depth chart. Most teams keep 5-6 receivers on their roster during the season.
D) After the mess we had at returner this season I don't think it's a bad idea to keep multiple options at this spot.

 

Most good linebackers play until they are about 34-35 years old it seems. Dansby wouldn't be a long term piece but rather a short term, stop gap solution until we can develop a long term ILB to take his role wither that be Gooden or a second day pick in 2015.

I've watched Butler play 4-5 times and have never really been impressed with him. Obviously I don't watch him on a day to day basis but he really does nothing to stand out on tape. Also for what is worth he is ranked as the 6th worse FA linebacker by PFF so there is some kind of basis for saying he sucks*.

* Note: I am aware that PFF is far from gospel when it comes to evaluating players.

 

1) Don't overpay any free agents this year.

2) Draft well.

It's that simple.

 

do you think we need to put hunter as the number 4 on our roster after spending a second round pick on him though

and if the guy is a playmaker then you have to put him in position to make plays--patrick peterson and percy harvin for example, i know harvin is never healthy but if you have a player with those instincts you have to give them the chance to make plays