What if We Strike Out on All Three WR?

[j-off-her-doll]

If we strike out on all 3, it will be a Huge blessing in disguise for us.
Trade a 2/3 to move up in the first.
Draft Patterson And Hunter with our firsts. Get Trufant and Rambo in the 2/3 rounds.
Use our cap space everywhere else but wr.

Now we will have 2 stud wr's. On rookie contracts too.
We will have all that cap space to do other things.

Now I know this plan, may not be able to fix all our holes as well as other plans.
I just feel, trying to overextend by trying to fix all the holes in our team in this one offseason, all that will end up happening is we will end up having a bunch of mediocre/mid range type of guys.
Leading us further down the path of mediocrity.

I rather go all out and fix this wr issue asap, we can't risk stunting Tannehill either, which makes wr the biggest need imho this year.
So I say, go overboard, and turn our wr weakness into our strength.
Then let's proceed from there.
We will have more money too by not blowing it on the FA wr's.

I think the sentiment here is spot on. The players and positions by round I'm here-or-there on, but you hit a lot of key points, and I think you're on the right side of all of them. It's better to be really good at one or two things than mediocre at everything.

[hooshoops]

very possible we get outbid on all 3 and if hartlines still on the market he's the fallback option...

[iamtiv]

Quite frankly, knowing our recent history, it almost seems like a foregone conclusion that we WON'T get any premier FAs, but it's just too easy to be that negative with what's been happening. I think if a mistake is made, or should I say, an arrangement that's less desirable, than I think it would be us getting the guy that our fanbase is less encouraged about, like Bowe, for instance.
Bowe just screams 'Marshall redux (all those negatives)', doesn't he? I don't think that would be a problem though. I just don't see us having the kind of air of incompetence that lingered over the Sparano administration towards the end, which really fed into Brandon Marshall's bi-polar chaos. I think if we did get Bowe then he'd be OK but his drops would drive us nuts. All the players have '+s and -s' that we'd have to deal with. All we can do is hope for the best.

A reality check, though, is this: If we don't get the FA's we need, then our whole approach to this season has to radically change. If we get the FAs, then we make an effort to win this season, but if we don't then we're much better off selling veterans, stockpiling draft picks, and trying again next year, keeping our cap low for the 2014 offseason. It would be very disappointing but it's best to maximize the situation.
Worse-case scenario would see us completely failing to upgrade the veteran talent with impact players, over-paying for bums, and relying on drafted players to make us better in 2013 an that's just a recipe for 7-9 or worse. If we strike out in FA, then we must plan for 2014, period.
For us, it wouldn't be the worst thing, as this would surely mean the death of Jeff Ireland as our GM. If his stench or stigma repulses free agents again then he has to be jettisoned, and maybe even Ross would see that.

[Geforce]

Quite frankly, knowing our recent history, it almost seems like a foregone conclusion that we WON'T get any premier FAs, but it's just too easy to be that negative with what's been happening. I think if a mistake is made, or should I say, an arrangement that's less desirable, than I think it would be us getting the guy that our fanbase is less encouraged about, like Bowe, for instance.
Bowe just screams 'Marshall redux (all those negatives)', doesn't he? I don't think that would be a problem though. I just don't see us having the kind of air of incompetence that lingered over the Sparano administration towards the end, which really fed into Brandon Marshall's bi-polar chaos. I think if we did get Bowe then he'd be OK but his drops would drive us nuts. All the players have '+s and -s' that we'd have to deal with. All we can do is hope for the best.

A reality check, though, is this: If we don't get the FA's we need, then our whole approach to this season has to radically change. If we get the FAs, then we make an effort to win this season, but if we don't then we're much better off selling veterans, stockpiling draft picks, and trying again next year, keeping our cap low for the 2014 offseason. It would be very disappointing but it's best to maximize the situation.
Worse-case scenario would see us completely failing to upgrade the veteran talent with impact players, over-paying for bums, and relying on drafted players to make us better in 2013 an that's just a recipe for 7-9 or worse. If we strike out in FA, then we must plan for 2014, period.
For us, it wouldn't be the worst thing, as this would surely mean the death of Jeff Ireland as our GM. If his stench or stigma repulses free agents again then he has to be jettisoned, and maybe even Ross would see that.

No...Bowe does not scream Marshall redux. Yes Bowe has dropped some passes (only dropped 5 last season) but he does not have the locker room or off the field issues that Marshall had.

[Chuck-182]

If we do then tough titty. We missed out on Peyton Manning last year and that seems to be for the best in my opinion.

Haha you're kidding right?

[39wildman]

this might happen it happen last yr this is best question of month

[houtz]

If this happens I expect a new regime in 2014.

[jtoomuch]

I think the sentiment here is spot on. The players and positions by round I'm here-or-there on, but you hit a lot of key points, and I think you're on the right side of all of them. It's better to be really good at one or two things than mediocre at everything.

that is what bugs me about trading down in the draft. i want the great player rather than two good ones. i think you are right.

[Valandui]

very possible we get outbid on all 3 and if hartlines still on the market he's the fallback option...

Awesome fallback option.

[tcdrover]

We won't strike out. Jennings to Miami is a lock. Only one who can screw that up is Ireland, and that should make everyone nervous.

I think Jennings is a lock too, but it seems a lot of people around here are obssessively focused on the GM.

If another, more desperate team throws truckloads of money at Jennings he will sign somewhere else. Ireland is not as much a factor as many people seem to think he is.