MNF: Raiders vs Lions

bclemms said

I literally listed many of those things.

Trey- You don't trade up on multiple first round pick busts to let the 24 year old pass rusher knocking down double digit sacks in spot duty out of your building. You find a way.

As for the signing of players in the offseason, we shuffled players based on affordability and signed Carr. We can't afford to move on from any starter on the team that isn't in a rookie deal we are so locked up with cash.

Anzalone the fans jumped his arse for making a bad play in a key situation. He played in every game his last season here. After realizing he is 29 years old I feel less bad about him not being here.

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I also think it’s worth noting that the cap not only didn’t go up as much as it was supposed to, it actually went DOWN for the first time ever, like WAY down, due to the financial effects of the pandemic.

With our style of cap management, where we live on the edge and “borrow from future years” on an endless rolling basis, that without question threw our plans into disarray in the exact worst year possible (the contract expiration off-season for most of our stellar 2017 rookie class).

We were looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of a -$30m swing from what was planned that year. Can’t fault the front office for not building in “Possible unprecedented global catastrophe” into their accounting ledger plans.