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Originally Posted by jamf
I think we can all agree that this season is one of the worst in the history of the franchise.
There aren't many positives from this season but one positive is the cap penalty prevented us from bringing on horrible free agent contracts.
If Shanahan were to stay another year, we undoubtedly would sign a bunch of Shanahan guys and be stuck with them for the next 4 to 6 years or take a huge cap hit.
The roster has about 10 older guys making a lot of money we can cut and not take a major cap hit.
I hope the new staff realizes that it's time to get younger and that a 30+ year old player like Fletcher or Carriker aren't going to be able to help us down the road, we need to develop young talent.
Here is a short list of players I feel could be cut and their base salary:
Morgan 9Mil
Fletcher 5.5mil
Carriker 4.7Mil
Bowen 4.4Mil
Chester 3Mil
Montgomery 3Mil
Cofield 4.5Mil
Meriweather 3Mil
The majority of these guys will be gone but I don't know how realistic it is to replace both guards and 3 on the DLine.
Unfortunately we are missing what will probably be the first pick in next years draft but at least we have the finances to bring on guys the new HC wants.
With that said, that doesn't mean there will be good players available but anything has to be better than what we have now right?
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Name me one guy on that list other than Fletch that deserves to be resigned? And even Fletch has obviously lost a few steps and probably will retire regardless. I would keep both guards as depth and Cofield is serviceable. Everyone else can be replaced with some decent undrafted FAs if need be. At least we would have some more youth and speed.