The temptation to win now

I agree with the writer this should be a “reset” season. Not necessarily a full on fire sale rebuild but a reset. The team should allow all the current expensive backloaded contracts to reach a point where cutting those vets is possible without restructuring/extending them. It will also mean eating some serious dead money over the next couple of seasons. This will severely limit your ability to sign FAs so Moore will have to build his team through the draft and with UDFAs.

Moore’s job is course to try to win with the roster he’ll help build. Next year may rough trying to win with a mixed roster of old uncuttable players on bad contracts and young inexperienced rookies. Not impossible but still an uphill battle. The following season as they clear even more bad contracts they should start having some cap flexibility to sign a few targeted free agents. But Loomis must absolutely stop writing big backloaded contracts, restructuring and extending old vets, and converting bonuses to salary in an attempt to “win now”.