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OK. They're posted in the second post, but it hit me that I can probably adjust the "no FA >50" portion of the rule because of the new cap economics created by restricting renegotiations: I suspect that I won't be able to afford to build my team through top FAs, so I'd like to allow the strategic decision of when to pursue a guy that eats up a big chunk of my cap and will do so throughout the length of his contract.
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2036 OFFSEASON
T Lewis Braham retires. He was a 3rd round pick in 2024, and our #1 LT from 2025-2031. Drafted as a 16/49 guy who was only 1% developed, Braham would unmask to 72/72, but he declined rather quickly. He spent his final four seasons as a backup and mentor.We also lose the 2nd round pick from that same year, S Levon Stephens. He was 16/47 as a draftee, and unmasked to 65/65. He held down a starting job for 11 of his 12 seasons. Stephens was an All-Pro once, and retires 3rd in Atlanta history in tackles, assists, and passes defensed. FRANCHISE: None.
SUMMER: WR Mitchell Peters
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IMMEDIATE CUTSI have a weakness at OLB, and 3rd-year man Lance Deericks (15/48-->22/43) clearly isn't the answer. The former 6th round pick gets released to free up some more room to pursue FA options. NEW SIGNINGS FS Brent Rasnic (59/59)--Easy choice to pursue a FS, since my best option was a 27/27 guy. Rasnic should help get the secondary back up among the better ones in the league. SLB C.J. Iannucci (58/58)--Another big position of need on defense. We were at 40/40 and 34/34 at OLB. After these two signings, we have only $1.47M left in cap room, which is virtually nothing at the current $336.5M cap. The minimum for an undrafted FA is $960K right now. DRAFT
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ROSTER RATING: 80 (4th place) COHESION: 100-100-95-77 I'm going to shorten up the passing game a bit this year, as a good bit of Sweazy's ratings loss has been in downfield passing.
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Lost several close ones and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. I'm *really* curious to see what's going to happen to this team when Sweazy hangs 'em up, which should be pretty soon.
Sweazy wins the award trifecta, DT George Perason is a 1st Team All Pro, and LT Ethan Cobbs (37 KRB, 2 pancakes) is 2nd Team.
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Incidentally, I just noticed something that I'm certain has helped ramp up the difficulty as of late. Division rivals TB and NO have star QBs. The guy for New Orleans is 90/90 and in only his 7th season. TB's guy is almost a year older than Sweazy, but is still 68/68. TB won the whole shebang this year, and they have 10 wins or more in six of the last seven regular seasons. New Orleans has 20 wins total in the last two.
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Sweazy called it quits after 14 years.
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The interesting thing is that without Sweazy's massive salary, I might be able to build an entirely different kind of team. This could get *very* interesting.
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2037 OFFSEASON
In addition to Sweazy, OLB Kenneth Hines and DT Craig Dowdell hang 'em up. Dowdell played 12 seasons for us after being picked 1(26). He was a four-time All Pro. Hines had a decent nine-year Falcon career after being a 1(24) pick. Both lost their starting jobs in 2036.FRANCHISE: None. SUMMER: DE Thurman Karsten
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ROSTER: 62. (16th-best). The Saints are #1. COHESION: 87-100-85-59 As mentioned earlier, we're gonna try to do it with defense, special teams, a running game, and this guy at QB: ]
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TE Stallings suffers a compound leg fracture in Week 4. That sucks.
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We won the division and even got a bye week! Details in a bit...
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Heh. CHAMPS!!!
The offense was good enough, and both the defense and special teams were stellar.
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Total team effort. No awards at all. The championship game MVP was won by a Pittsburgh player, even.
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2038 OFFSEASON
Just one retirement: starting RT Rich Erhardt. He is definitely replaceable. FRANCHISE: None.
SUMMER: G Paul Gonzalez
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IMMEDIATE CUTSRB Matthew Mills (44/44)--Getting old, and only 3.04 ypc last year. WR Myron Bucker (40/40)--Just making too much for a WR3/WR4 at best, and I see a WR I'd like to pursue in free agency. DT Stanley Miller (36/36)--He was only signed to be a mentor, and the guy he's mentoring is fully developed now. CB Bryan Chapman (31/43)--Was 27/65. I've seen enough. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 9.3%. My thinking now is that since we were good enough to win it all last year, why not go for the gusto again? There's no FA QB out there worth much than the cohesion my veterans add, but there's a stud WR. NEW SIGNINGS TE Alonzo Tant (71/71)--The compound leg fracture injury to TE Stallings still has 12 weeks left, and I don't know that I've ever seen someone come back from that injury without at least *some* ratings loss. This 9th-year veteran should be a very good replacement. WR Bryan Conley (76/76)--11th-year man, so I don't expect 76/76 after camp, but I still suspect he'll be my best receiver. These two guys eat up most of the cap room I had, but they may well be worth it. The defense should be just as good as last year, and these guys ought to help the offense. DRAFT
We have the #32 pick this year, and it is used on....
Solid combines across the board for this guy. Neither of my QB picks last year look like they're going to pan out, so it made sense to grab Gower.
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ROSTER: 68 (9th) COHESION: 69-100-85-78 I'll use the same pass distances I did last year (heavily in the 0-20 yard range), but with the addition of Conley to the mix, we'll throw more in general.
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...and sure enough, TE Winston Stallings comes back in Week 9, 100% healthy, and 77/77. With the Stallings/Tant combo, I increase the 2 TE the rest of the way.
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Nice run at the title, but we come up short...
It was the #1 scoring offense versus the #1 scoring defense in the Super Bowl, and the offense prevailed.
We had a couple of big injuries not mentioned already...
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2039 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTSDE Ricky Hare--12-year veteran, drafted 2(17), 79.5 sacks, 189 hurries. He had declined the last few years. He combined for only 9 sacks in 2036 and 2037 in a starting role, and only was in on 27 snaps last year. 1st in Atlanta history in sacks, hurries, and blocked passes. 1-time All Pro. LT Ethan Cobbs--11-year vet, drafted 2(25). He was the starter last year, but did not have good stats at all compared to the rest of his career. RG Deon Derlange--6-year vet, drafted 4(32). He started for three season, then sat most of 2038 and decided to hang 'em up. FRANCHISE: TE Winston Stallings
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2039 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTS DE Ricky Hare--12-year veteran, drafted 2(17), 79.5 sacks, 189 hurries. He had declined the last few years. He combined for only 9 sacks in 2036 and 2037 in a starting role, and only was in on 27 snaps last year. 1st in Atlanta history in sacks, hurries, and blocked passes. 1-time All Pro. LT Ethan Cobbs--11-year vet, drafted 2(25). He was the starter last year, but did not have good stats at all compared to the rest of his career. RG Deon Derlange--6-year vet, drafted 4(32). He started for three season, then sat most of 2038 and decided to hang 'em up. FRANCHISE: TE Winston Stallings
SUMMER: WR Rico Weliczka
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IMMEDIATE CUTSQB J.J. Alcott (28/38)--Drafted at 17/48. No point in keeping him any longer. QB Gino Burnett (27/43)--Former first round pick has dropped from 17/59. Ditto. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 18.1%. However, I three high-dollar starters become FAs because they were old and I thought they might retire. I need help at the following positions: C: Best under contract is 42/42 OT: Only two are 28/29 and 23/37 CB: A 52/52 guy, but the next best is a 40/40 10th-year man So, I really could use a Center, 2 Tackles and a Cornerback....and not to mention a more stable option at QB until Jose Gower is ready. After looking through the pool, it's clear that I can get nothing better than role-players at those positions. However, there's a high-dollar 7th-year WR. I'm curious to see the impact of signing one of those on my cap situation long-term, so I decide to pursue him. NEW SIGNINGS CB Roderick Prescott (57/57)--Dicey signing of this 12-year man, but there weren't really many options at corner. C Marc Upshaw (56/56)--7th-year guy who is best at run blocking (79). T Josh Heneghan (43/43)--The options at tackle were less than compelling, but better than what I had. This 5th-year man will start at RT. His best skill is run blocking (62) T Donovan Taylor (47/47)--7th-year veteran has balanced skills. Best is run blocking (59). Will start at LT. Well, we won't know about the WR. I was outbid on him and couldn't offer any more. Nice, at least in terms of challenge. DRAFT
We have the #31pick this year, and it is used on....
I'm old at the safety position, and this guy looks very, very good.
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ROSTER: 86 (7th overall) COHESION: 66-68-95-77 All indications are that we should have a pretty solid and balanced running game, so I'm cranking that up a bit this year.
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An absolutely STUNNING performance, led again by defense and special teams, but bolstered by a strong offensive performance, too. WOW!!!
I really have no idea what to make of this guy...
...taking us to three straight Super Bowls, and winning two, when Aaron Sweazy only got us there once. Maybe other facets of FOF2K7 besides QB are more important than I've realized. My offensive game plan this year was very similar to the Smash Mouth public one. I tweaked the passing distances for Swatek's skill set (something like 5/25/70 short, 40/40/5/5/10 long), ran a little less on second down, used a good bit more 2 TE on first and second down to get Stallings and Tant on the field, and added in some very simple Adjustments. Nothing earth-shattering there, by any means. One thing worth noting is that the yardage gained wasn't stellar, but we nearly set an all-time record for ppg. That had a lot to do with defense and special teams. We were #1 in punt return average (14.3), #2 in kick return average (29.6), and #1 by very wide margins in both punt and kick return average allowed (2.3 and 17.2). Our defense and special teams definitely helped us win field position battle after field position battle. That doesn't account for the stellar completion percentage, though. My best guess there is that it was a combination of avoiding Swatek's pitfalls, having the 2 TEs and one WR with great pass-catching ratings, and running the football a good bit on first and second downs.
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Left off 2039 Award-Winners...
LG Paul Gonzalez, 1st Team: 45 KRB, 20 pancakes. 2 sacks allowed. (The league record for pancakes is 21.) DE Thurman Karsten, 1st Team (stats above) CB Bucky Boone, 2nd Team (stats above) Swatek was named Front Office Bowl MVP: 27 for 32, 306 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs.
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2040 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTSCB Roderick Prescott--Starting corner last year. Signed as a FA three seasons ago.. WR George Eldred--Career Falcon (13 seasons). Former 1st-round pick. FRANCHISE: None
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2040 FA1
DE Karsten is in his final year under contract. I sign him to a massive extension that's going to take up a good bit of my cap room.
IMMEDIATE CUTS DE Skip Corbett (27/27)--His ratings have dropped, and he's expensive, due to a contract he signed as a starter. FB Gino Craig (41/41)--In his 12th year, and the other FB just became a mentor. No reason to wait for him to drop like a brick in camp. I could use his money this year. QB Alan Sasa (21/39)--Already down 13 points from draftee status, and only in year 2, with a conflict. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 5.4%. And I'm out a starting corner. Getting a good one will likely use up most of that. NEW SIGNINGS CB Percy Booker (65/65)--this guy looks like a nice grab: 5th-year man with an 81.3 career PDPct. He gets a four-year deal. This signing gets us down to only having room for 4 minisal guys if I needed them.
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2040 DRAFT/TRAINING CAMP
We have the #32 pick this year, and it is used on....
This was a marquee year for QBs. Nine went in the first round.
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Boone ends his holdout in PreWk3.
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QB Franklin signs in PreWk4. He signs a cheap enough offer to give me *just* enough room to sign RB Reynolds to his request. Whew!
Incidentally, I'm going to break (slightly) a house rule early in the season. I'd really like to see if Swatek can still do anything. I'll let Rex do everything else on the depth chart, but Swatek will begin the year as starter.
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After 8 games, Swatek was a 110.4 rating and a 68.6 completion percentage--and that's with Conley having played in only two games, due to injury.
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Oh, so close....
Will a 24/24 QB in his 13th season return for one more year???
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He did. However, TE Stallings and WR Conley retired. I suspect that Swatek's incredible run is over.
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After two decades of running the team...
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2041 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTSWR Bryan Conley--He was one of the league's all-time greats, signed by me as a FA in the twilight of his career. He was the #4 pick overall by Oakland in 2028, and remained a Raider for 10 seasons, and had over 1,000 receiving yards in every one of them. His best year was 2034, in which he caught 128 passes for 1945 yards and 15 TDs. We signed him in 2038, and he helped us win a ring. He retires 2nd all-time in receptions, 4th in receiving yards, and 6th in TDs. A sure-fire Hall Of Famer, and our starting WR S Brent Rasnic--A FA signee who played five years in Atlanta. Was no longer a starter last year. OLB C.J. Iannucii--Another FA signee--played five years as a Falcon, the last two of which were as a reserve. TE Winston Stallings--We picked him 1(26) in 2031, and he played for a decade. Came back from a compound leg fracture that caused him to miss most of 2027 and 2038, and caught 50 passes in 2039. FRANCHISE: G Paul Gonzalez--I couldn't afford to extend him last year when money was tight. SUMMER: FB Patrick Woods
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2041 FA1
IMMEDIATE CUTS T Josh Heneghan (43/43)--Starter last two years, but he sucked: 12 for 66 combined for us at KRB on a team that ran the ball well. There are other tackles available via free agency. DE Daryl McAddley (19/36)--7th round pick last year. Ratings dropping. Conflict. Buh-bye. CB Winston Richard (41/41)--Getting paid starter money, but no longer starter quality. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 12.5% STARTERS NEEDED: RT, MLB, OLB NEW SIGNINGS T Wendell Lyle (58/58)--6th-year man who should help fill a void on the o-line. OLB Justin Cobb (66/66)--8-year veteran 2-time All-Pro. ILB A.J. Heath (48/48)--This is my own guy. I'd allowed him to become a FA, but I missed on the guy I wanted, so I re-sign Heath.
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2041 DRAFT/TRAINING CAMP
We have the #31 pick this year, and it is used on.... Rnd 2 - Deron Urban, WR, Notre Dame: 25/60-->27/54 Rnd 3 - Mike Catalano, RB, Boston College: 33/47-->33/47 Rnd 4 - Dave Garner, QB, Savannah State: 12/22-->14/23 Rnd 5 - Darren Hickman, G, Wisconsin: 19/23-->21/26 Rnd 6 - Artie McDonald, DE, Washington State: 23/41-->24/37 Rnd 7 - Sam Fuller, FB, Washington: 18/38-->20/39 OTHER CAMP NEWS OF NOTE
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2041 ROSTER
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ROSTER: 100 (Denver also has 100, and 6 teams are in the 90s. Apparent parity among the top-tier teams.) COHESION: 77-72-100-69 A handful of injuries, all minor, will impact us early in the season. Of concern is that 1st-round pick Burdette hasn't signed. As far as game plan, looking at Gower's player card... ...I'm going to do something a little funky. He doesn't appear to be much of a passer, apart from third downs and 21-30 yards, so I'm going to run it a good bit more, and when I pass, I'll throw more in that range than I normally do.
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I had to abandon that game plan idea around midseason, but even when I shortened it up, things didn't go so well in the passing game...
Well, that was interesting. I tend to think the passing issues were a result of a QB/WR mismatch in skill sets--having a downfield passer but non-downfield receivers.
Only All-Pro is G Paul Gonzalez: 40 for 100 KRB, 7 pancackes, 5 sacks allowed.
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2042 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTS QB Everett Swatek--Drafted 3(24) in 2028...Backed up the legendary Aaron Sweazy for most of his career...Led team to four straight Super Bowls, and 2 wins, from 2037-2040...Threw enough passes to qualify for all-time honors: 1st all-time in completion percentage, 3rd all-time in QB Rating. TE Alonzo Tant--Signed as a FA in year 9 of his distinguished career...Caught 76 passes for 937 yards for Arizona as a third-year player. FRANCHISE: QB Jose Gower--not sure I'll keep him, but I at least want that option.
SUMMER: S Casey Burdette
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2042 FA1
First off, there's no QB in free agency who looks like a decent option, and none in the draft that looks like he'll fall to my #16 pick. Gower's franchise salary puts us over the cap by a wide margin, but I can sign him to a long-term deal averaging a little over 4% of the current cap. He gained another point, to 48/48, as FA1 begins. It really doesn't appear that I have any other reasonable choice. So, for better or worse, I'm rebuilding my offense around him.Worth mentioning: I've got a combine-skipper former undrafted FA now starting for me: SS Desmond Farrell was 21/41 initially, but is now 56/56 and has an 82.7 PDPct and 36 career starts. He has been the #1 guy the last two seasons, and he's now getting an extension. IMMEDIATE CUTS SS Archie Crane (47/47)--With three solid young safeties, I don't need to pay this guy starter money just to be a mentor and backup. I'll find someone much cheaper to fill that role.. WR Brian Frederick (40/40), WR Mitchell Peters (39/39), WR Lionel Griffin (28/28), TE Herb Reese (41/41)--Guys who just aren't going to fit in an offensive system tailored for Jose Gower. FB Martin Perez (23/23)--Sat out last season with elbow surgery. Came back with horrid ratings. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 9.8% STARTERS NEEDED: WR, MLB NEW SIGNINGS TE Blake Covington, 5, 52/52--Exactly what I'd want in a TE for the offense I intend to run: strong blocker (79/70/82), low route-running (22), high big-play receiving (64). I wish his third down catching was higher than 51, but all things considered, I couldn't have asked for a better fit here. WR Pat Krueger, 5, 54/54--84 Third Down Catching, 74 Big-Play Receiving, 74 Avoid Drops. MLB Bryan Hiel, 5, 56/56--Strong in run defense and endurance. Should help plug up the middle. S Dwayne Hutton, 6, 43/43--The cheap mentor I was hoping for. He's also relatively young. Nice! WR Floyd Powell, 9, 53/53--70 Big Play. A little weak (45) on third downs, but he should fit in fairly well as the third WR until I can get a better option. If this doesn't work, we may be in trouble. We've already got 89.7% of next year's cap used up, and we haven't drafted yet.
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2042 DRAFT/TRAINING CAMP
We have the #16 pick this year, and it is used on.... Rnd 2 - Bryant Bove, ILB, Mississippi: 23/55-->26/50 Rnd 3 - Ryan Williamson, WR, South Carolina: 19/33-->22/34 Rnd 4 - Josh Giefeke, TE, Nebraska: 23/59-->25/53 Rnd 5 - Charlie Schreiber, QB, Vanderbilt: 6/46-->10/43 Rnd 6 - Harry Meinke, T, Texas Tech: 12/30-->16/34 Rnd 7 - Scott Barrett, C, Rice: 16/24-->19/27 OTHER CAMP NEWS OF NOTE
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ROSTER: 78 (4th overall) COHESION: 66-82-86-70 I'm going with a mini-Run-N-Stun this year, something more akin to the "Play Action Vertical" plan that I published than the true RnS.
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In the midst of what was shaping up to be a pretty solid season, Jose Gower ruptures his adductor in Week 13 and will miss the rest of the season.
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2042 summary....
Honestly, I think our deep postseason run was more luck than anything else. We won the turnover battle in all three of the wins. It looks like we have a solid team again, but probably not a championship one. Looking at the cap situation next year, I'm not sure I'll be able to improve the team significantly again any time soon.
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2043 OFFSEASON BEGIN
RETIREMENTST Donovan Taylor--FA signee in 2039 and four-year starter. Will need a replacement- FRANCHISE: QB Jose Gower--not sure I'll keep him, but I at least want that option.
SUMMER: OLB Colin Jamison
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Heh. I just noticed that RB Carlos Stanton is the career punt return leader, by over 400 yards, and he has only played five seasons. At 2,421 yards, he's the only player in league history with over 2,000 punt return yards.
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2043 FA1
As I suspected, money is going to be very tight this offseason. After my initial round of "no-brainer" extensions, I'm only left with 1.1% of the cap available. That's with three 2042 starters not extended--68/68 S Jay Fairchild, 55/55 OLB William Burns, and 56/56 WR Rico Weliczka--and no starting-quality LT on the roster. I'm going to have to make an actual difficult cap decision or two. I don't want two of those guys hitting the open market next season, but it may be unavoidable.IMMEDIATE CUTS DE Leon Kelleher (41/41)--Starter from last season who didn't perform well at all, and is in year 11. I can find someone a lot cheaper to give me 5.5 sacks and 6 hurries, I reckon. DT George Pearson (37/37)--Former starter and current mentor, but now we have four DTs, all veterans. His mentorship isn't needed, and his salary is just too high. PERCENTAGE OF CAP AVAILABLE AFTER CUTS/EXTENSIONS: 3.0% STARTERS NEEDED: LDE, LT. Well, this is what I wanted. I'll have to go with marginal players or rookies to fill two key starting slots this season. NEW SIGNINGS T Cornell Vance, 6, 48/48--Affinity match with balanced skill set. 2-year deal. DE Harris Anderson, 8, 39/39--Cheap affinity match. One-year deal. . These two signings get me down to less than 2 minisal rookies worth of cap room. Hope no one holds out. {crosses fingers}
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2043 DRAFT/TRAINING CAMP
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Rnd 2 - Ralph Shea, RB, Eastern Kentucky: 32/40-->33/40 Rnd 3 - Rob Cotton, DT, Syracuse: 18/63-->21/55 Rnd 4 - Renaldo Pantin, DE, Wisconsin: 27/52-->30/52 Rnd 5 - Floyd Hemond, C, Liberty (Va.): 17/45-->23/45 Rnd 6 - Harvey Packwood, T, Oklahoma State: 18/39-->27/46 Nice! Rnd 7 - Bert Kegley, QB, Arkansas: 13/34-->16/33 So my 4th, 5th and 6th round picks this year may end up being my best. Heh. Holdout! Quote:
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After some time to do a bit of my own research I'd like to retract my original comment :o I think the problem I had encountered was that underrated players often showed up on the roster with lower ratings than I was expecting, so I assumed they were busts. I've now found that, even though they tend to still have lower ratings post-draft than I'd like, more often than not they creep up so underrated players is clearly the way to go. |
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ROSTER RATING: 82 (4th overall) COHESION: 62-80-67-83 I'm not really sure what to make of this team. The offense doesn't look terribly impressive, but the defense (once everyone is healthy from the minor preseason injuries) looks quite solid. Offensively, I'll start out with basically the same game plan as last season, run-first, downfield passing offense.
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