[Trample the Elderly]

My thoughts on your thoughts:

(A) S.Springs should be let go, or restructured for a short term contract to move over to safety. Give him a two year contract at least until he can be replaced through the draft or with an undrafted rookie. He's a better football player than Hall, Smoot, or Rogers, period, when you can get him on the field. He does owe us some money though.

(B) M.Washington, Cut and resign on the cheap. If you let him go you have to replace him. Keep him around until we have someone to replace him with. A healthy rested M.Washington is a good asset to have waiting on the bench in week 12 2009 when Alfred Fincher or M.SinClair go down for the rest of the season. He's the most likely to go though.

(C) C. Griffin, Keep for another year until he can be replaced through the draft. We don't have a quality player to replace him with.

(D) R.Doughty, Resign on the cheap, This will probably happen. Horton was injured at the end of last year. He's a draft pick and a free agent. If I'm not mistaken if he isn't resigned we get a pick in future drafts

(E) P.Daniels, Cut. We've got three live bodies to fill that hole for now and we can replace him through the draft next year.

(F) C.Raback, Let the man compete for a spot as a guard or tackle. If he doesn't cut it as a starter or at least a quality back-up, cut him at the final 53 man roster date.

(G) S.Suisham, Competition will be brought in during the training camp at this position and for the punter spot. JZ has already stated this. He's a FA and we'll probably let him go regardless unless we can't find someone better.

(H) J.Fabini, cut.

(I) James Thrash, there's no reason to keep him on the roster. He's doing nothing on special teams and the rookie WRs need field time for better or worse. Bring an undrafted rookie or a modestly priced FA to replace him.

(J) K.Golston, He's a free agent this year. Toss up? His back up (A.montgomery) is another draft pick and also a free agent. It would be unwise to let both of them go in favor of a FA who doesn't know the system.

(K) P.Kendall, Why let him go if just to save money? He's also a free agent and if you let him go you still have to bring in another FA to replace him. Is Rhinehardt ready to go? Is Devon Clark? He's old but is he getting beat? Of all the O-linemen he's one of the keepers. We can't replace the whole O-line in one draft.

I'm not sold on Hall. I'd like to have all of the Secondary back next year including Smoot. We'll probably have to replace him later on. The Secondary is the least of our problems right now.

Montgomery and Evans are free agents this year and draft picks. Alexander is neither. There isn't anyone else on right side DT.

Sign Rogers, he's good enough for a pay day and has room for growth. I wouldn't break the bank for Hall or Rogers. What they offered Hall should be good enough for Rogers. I like Rogers more but Greg Blache fired him from his starting position for a reason.

(1) Bruce Allen shouldn't be hired as a GM. If anything he can brought in to help with the Cap. No GM is going to come here if we don't keep Vinny a few years calling the shots. If anything we should get someone who is a better GM than Allen or Cerato like, dare I say it, the Tuna. They'll not come unless Snyder lives down his reputation of meddling and gives Vinny total control for at least the tenure of JZ. They should both go at the same time. If or when they do then we can totally rebuild.

(2) The word on the street is that Jansen is going over to guard until next year when he'll be released because of the Cap.

(3) Stacy Andrews at RT, yep. Not to mention Willie Colon, Max Starks. Jahri Evans, Chris Kemoeatu, Mark Setterstrom, or Jovan Hayes. These guys can be a quick hole to plug at Tackle until we can get a draft pick for the position and get him up to speed.

(4) Jovan Haye, younger hole filler until we can draft that position.

(5) Rickie Incognito or Jason Brown. I'd rather draft Alex Mack. Either way Raback is getting beat at that poition.

(6) Sign Michael Boley, Leroy Hill, or Angelo Crowell. Why not? They'll not command a lot of money. Bring in some undrafted rookies to compete during training camp.

(7) Sign a cheap veteran CB to give us some more depth after letting springs go. (I can see that) I'd rather give Tryon the playing time and have an undrafted rookie on the bench.

(8) Shane Graham or Mick Nuggent? This will probably happen.

(9) Key message, fill holes without breaking the bank on massive contracts, especialy on guys like Gross, Peppers, or Haynesworth. We have a track record of making FAs not live up to the money we give them. This seems reasonable to me. With the cuts we should have some decent money to spend.
(Agreed. I would consider Jordan Gross though only because he's younger than Peppers and Haynesworth, nor does he have their durability issues. We also have better luck with FA on the lines. Almost all of our offensive line-men are FAs. Jansen, Heyer, and Rhinehardt are draft picks.)

Don't waste a 13th pick. We might or might not get that good of a pick for a long time. We need the best player available for need. That is Jason Smith or Alex Mack. Yes, we argued this already on the other thread. But with either of these players we'll get a solid guy for years to come and that is a real need for us right now.

We can argue the draft until the cows come home. I think if we get a tackle or Center we should get the best available and those are our most pressing needs right now.