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I was thinking Foster/Parker and Cox. That would be McPhee/Foster/Rolle/Parker/Cox added on defense, and Royal on offense.

According to overthecap.com we have $130,789,062 committed to the cap after the McPhee/Royal/Rolle signings, and we have an adjusted cap of $145,168,434 for this year (with carry over). That leaves us with $14.380; we have a total rookie pool of about $5.7 and an effective rookie pool of about $3.4. With league year expenses and some cap flexibility, that leaves us around $9mil to sign other FA's. To me this seems like we can bring in 2-3 more mid-tier players. Hopefully two of them will be Foster and Parker.

Mike Wallace traded for same picks to Minny.

Thanks Orbitz:

Oh yeah 2000, I thought you meant their last one. I really don't know how relevant that is from 15 years ago though. The game has evolved. For the longest time it was defense and running the ball. Now I am not so sure. Just looking at last year, using PF/PA, of the top 10 PF teams, 8 made the playoffs, and two did not (PHI 10-6, NO 7-9). Compare that to PA, where only 5/10 teams made the playoffs. The same number of teams (5) were in the top 10 in rushing, and 5 others were in the top 10 in passing. So a balanced offense seems to be the best, and offense is more important than defense.

The team also put out a policy in regards to "no tv shows" and Marshall was on tv asking Harbaugh if he would let him be on the show. Both sides clearly at posturing here. The team had a policy and Marshall didn't want to abide by it, so they moved him to where he could. Just imagine if he stayed and was not allowed to "promote his brand". He would've become even a bigger annoyance.

Baltimore won in Lovie's last year (Seattle won in Trestman's first). Also, you were way off on that Ravens team, they were actually 10th in scoring (398) and 12th in pts allowed (344). If you look back over the past decade, teams with better offenses (scoring) have won 6 out of the last 10. PIT x2, GB, and SEA all had stronger defenses than offenses when they won (and GB had a great offense too). Pittsburgh is the only team to win a SB with a team that ranked in the 20's in scoring over that period. This would lead me to believe that you want a top 10 offense and a top 20 defense at minimum, but a top 10 defense and top 20 offense may not give you enough pts to be competitive.

LIES!!!!

Wesson, I don't think it comes down to one unit over another. If you look at the one trend with all those numbers is we never had a losing record with a postive pts differential, and never had a winning record when we had a negative differential (regardless of how many pts we scored or allowed). Our best year was in 2006 when we had +172 and made it to the SB. Looking at the teams with consistent success, they also don't have huge drop-offs from starters to the guys at the bottom of their 53-man roster. New England is the master of the role player, and guys aren't really backups compared to situational players. Our roster has mainly been very vanilla with starters and subs, and there has always been a pretty steep drop-off. So sometimes improving the bottom of the roster is just as important as improving the top.

Good point. Foster has a lot of upside and I have faith in Fox and Fangio to get that out of our guys. Going from Tucker to Fangio is a massive upgrade.

Probably $1mil more than I expected. Maclin averaged $11, and T. Smith averaged $8 per year. Maclin and Smith both have only had 1 year over 1k. Smith only had 49 receptions last year. So there is some risk there too. Maclin paid as a top 5 WR? Looking at those contracts, Royal's was probably inflated by $1mil.

Yeah, I can't wait until he is back on his tv show. You know there is more to follow. There had to be a lot going on for the organization to give him away for a 5th rounder.

#93 on NFL.com, converted from CB to S, plays special teams.

He is ranked #62 on NFL.com. He had a down year under LOLvie. We can buy low on him.

3 starters, and DGB does not have a lot of pressure on him and can learn the ropes from Royal and Alshon.

Only $4mil for 1 year?

Somehow we are the first team to draft a WR, and we go with White? He also has NYJ picking Waynes (CB) like they need another CB, hilarious. 7. Kevin White, WR, West Virginia 39. P.J. Williams, CB, Florida State 71. A.J. Cann, G, South Carolina 103. Bryce Petty, QB, Baylor 134. Joey Mbu, NT, Houston So we have a ridiculously bad defense, yet only 2 picks on that side of the ball? I would love Petty in the 4th, but I doubt he lasts that long. WF lost some credibility with this mock.

lmao

He was awesome in SF and was horrible in TB. Reunion with Fangio/Donatell might help, worth a look.

Interesting

This would be a great addition and huge upgrade. McPhee-Foster-Rolle-Parker added to the defense, and Royal to the offense is a pretty good haul in free agency, and I think we will still pick up a few other lower tier guys.

Conte and Wright back with Lovie. It didn't work here, so I don't know why it would work down there.

Low risk signing, only 2.5m cap hit for this year.

You trade down (even multiple times) if you have numerous players with comparable ratings when you are picking. If you can pick up an extra pick and still get your guy 10 picks later, you do it every time. However, if you have one guy rated above and beyond the others, you have to take him based on the value. So it will come down to who is available at every pick.