They signed Barrett to 1yr/$4mil contract originally. They had to hit him with the tag after he lead the league in sacks which happened before Brady signed in FA.
I agree that WR's and LB's can be found throughout the draft and aren't necessary to address via FA. Although if we were going WR in FA I'd like a cheaper option like Gallup or Fuller until we have full draft capital back to replace them.
Thank the Gods.
It's a five year window and the Bears have to get out from some of this bad money they created before it becomes nuclear. If the 2022 off-season is the off-season of cutting bait on Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn, Eddie Jackson, Eddie Goldman etc. while not really adding much veteran talent that is absolutely fine by me. Build up ammunition to make a concerted multi-year off-season spending run starting after Justin Fields' sophomore season.
This is literally the dumbest take on building a football team around a new franchise quarterback by wholesale selling off the most talented players on defence I mean are you kidding me this sounds like a total udder re-build scrapping of strength to literally gamble on draft when bears could literally win a superbowl in the next season or two or three shaking my **** head!
In 2023 those four will account for a combined thirty percent of the Bears salary cap and if they decline as much in 2021 and 2022 and they did in 2020 you're gonna be dealing with players who are barely rosterable (exception being Eddie Goldman, who is a complete unknown).
Its not a rebuild. A rebuild would be trading away guys like Jaylon Johnson or Darnell Mooney, and notice how I don't advocate for cutting Cody Whitehair (a significantly overpaid player in his own right). Its just reallocating resources in a salary cap league. You want to pay a thirty-three year old Khalil Mack ten percent of the Bears salary cap to contribute at the level of a rotation pass rusher?
Eddie Goldman is literally the polar opposite of a "complete" "unkown" if you even watch bears football when he was playing and watched also when he was sitting out for last season he literally anchored the interior of the line stopping runs and eating up blocks and even getting sacks and if you somehow don't know this which I would never understand then now you do know this and if you don't believe me then go ahead and re-watch 2019 season and then re-watch the covid season and see the difference in the production from the defencive line you should be able to see the difference literally plain as day with goldman in versus goldman out if you have eyes and a brain.
Trading away your entire core defensive personnel is not a rebuild? Okayyy
How is Eddie Goldman an unknown? You don't watch the games do you?
I think the ship has mostly sailed on Eddie Jackson and perhaps Khalil Mack. The latter I'm keeping an open mind on but two years of decline is less than encouraging. Still, I don't think of those guys as the core at all any more. Eddie Goldman could return in shape ready to brawl and reenter the picture, or he could be basically a basketcase after a year away from football. Impossible to know.
Trading?
Trading/cutting, whatever. Your plan to get rid of the players you listed is a rebuild. I appreciate the correction, "trading" was not the word I should have used. I also appreciate the expert level deflection. And the horrible football take. 10/10.
T-minus three posts til he's rambling about his kitchen remodel or all the friends he totally has.
