Sean Payton is showing how fast you can turn teams around
I think what most fans here forget to realize is that the only player the Broncos had a lot of money tied up in was Wilson and they also traded off some players for draft picks. Then they hit on drafting a QB so that salary offsets the dead money from Wilson.
However, we have quite a few older players who are strong holding our salary cap that we can’t just cut and be done with in one season like Denver. Cam Jordan, Derek Carr, Demario Davis, & Ram are stuck on our books for at least 2-3 more years all at significant amounts.
The only way we could turn this franchise around in 1-2 years is trade down in the draft and acquire a lot of picks and hope we hit on most. Building through the draft is the way to really do it but we need quite a few starters and a lot of depth to get better. And we don’t have anymore really good players we can trade for draft picks. Latt was one of our best and we only got a 3rd, 4th, & 6th for him.
I would love to see this team turn it around in one year, and it could very well happen if we get the right HC and coordinators. The key is Loomis needs to stop with this pushing money down the road and just eat some of these salaries and be done with them.