{2023 Thread Bumped} Underhill Giving No Quarter to Nick Wright

One thing that comes to mind is you would think that a team that operates this way would value draft picks as a ready source of cheap labor to fill in gaps in the roster. But far from being a team that trades down to accumulate picks, we’ve consistently sacrificed picks to trade up. Fewer picks and high cap leverage seems a curious combination…
What if this is Loomis reversing that strategy? Like he’s he depending on future comp picks plus our own to retool little by little while vets we’ve vested in rotate out. It could also be a nice way of saying that since you didn’t perform up to the contract you’d like, we’re not going to bother offering you one. I think one plus on our side is that players see how we treat our top performers and as good as current and past players that were able to secure high end contracts speak about us, it’s almost an incentive for rookies or 1-2 year players to up their game.