How long do you keep Devin Thomas and Malcolm Kelly if they don't produce?

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

we didnt just get 3 guys in free agency - we got 3 STARTERS, and two of them are pro-bowlers. We also have resigned or tendered several players who were key contributors, if not starters, on our roster last year. You only look at the guys we brought in from outside and Hall - but you ignore that we resigned/tendered Albright, Doughty, Fincher, Montgommery, and Golston. We still may bring back Daniels and Washington. Free agency is not over.

As it stands right now, our 2009 starting roster is already signifcantly upgraded on both sides of the ball. And we still have the draft which includes the 13th overall pick in the draft. If we stay at 13, we've got another instant starter and possibly a pro-bowler. If we trade down, well use the pick on at least two players who have starting potential in 2009. Do we still have needs? yes. Will we still have needs even after the draft? Yes. But this is the same situation with every team in football. We are a better team now than we were last year and weve narrowed the gap between the talent on our team and the 2008 NFC-East champion Giants. I'm very happy about where our team is now in relation to where it was a year ago and anyone who thinks differently is going to have a hard time proving their case.

You say we have no draft picks, but we have 4 and will probably get a 7th round compensatory pick for losing Brunell last year.

Really, who is our starting Sam? Who are our starting offensive Tackles? Who is our starting RG if Thomas cannot bounce back? Who is going to start at RE?

Sure, we replaced our LG with Dockery, but that wasn't a concern. Kendall would have re signed and he wasn't the weak link last season.

OK, we kept Hall, but even if we couldn't have, we still had Springs. That was not a position of need.

Albert Haynesworth was the only player added to the roster that filled a specific need or made a position better.

We have more holes than we have draft picks. If you truly believe that most late, day 2, picks are nothing more than camp bodies, then you should realize that our four picks are not going to address half of the needs that we have.

I understand that FA isn't over, but not knowing what is going through the FO's mind scares the crap out of me. It makes me ask the question every day "Are they going to address these needs or are we going to go into camp lacking?". You may wonder why I feel that way, but remember what happened 2 years ago before they addressed the LG position with Kendall. They tried to use Wade as a LG...Scary! Will they try some bogus crap this year as well?