The negative on Adams is that he will be 32 and signing him would likely mean that we won't have the money to upgrade the DL and/or LG. I get that the cap is flexible, but Loomis has said that he wants to get it closer to the norm and that is what he has done for the past 3 off seasons outside of the Carr signing. Last year in particular we spent very little. And I expect that to be the case for the next year or two.
The result is that paying Adams has an opportunity cost in that you don't have the money to upgrade the DL or LG. And that doesn't make sense to me when there are so many 2nd to mid-round WRs that come out in the draft every year producing at a high level year one and beyond. You don't so much see that on the DL and we really need to spend money in free agency and use draft picks to fix the DL.
And the truth is that we need more of an upgrade on the DL than we do a WR. We at least have some good pieces at WR for a position that we often only have two on the field. You almost always have 4 DL, if not more, on the field and we basically only have Granderson and Breese as players on the line. The rest range from just a guy to bad and some will be free agents (Young and Kpassagnon).