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You guys are all negative nancies. Let's talk about what this hypothetical offseason does:
As of now, we have five serious holes going into the 2018 offseason, in no order:
WR -- unless Conley shows up this year
OLB -- Hali is likely gone and Ford only has 2018 left on his deal
NT -- both of our NTs are walking, leaving only RNR
QB -- Smith & Bray are gone, leaving only Mahomes
CB -- hopefully we ink Mitchell, but we'll still need depth
both kickers -- Colquitt has lost some leg and is too expensive for our cap, and Santos is a free agent
Some of those are really hard to fill with the limited resources we have.
Fortunately, trading Smith and cutting/retiring DJ & Hali give us like $30m in cap space.
That allows me to secure Mitchell & Logan & Santos, ink a backup veteran at QB, and make one FA splash landing Jeffrey -- which again, makes our offense Super Bowl competitive.
That still leaves us with a gigantic hole at OLB, which I can fill by packing my two 2nds together (assuming of course that we get a 2nd for Smith, who just took our team to the AFCCG). I use a couple of my remaining picks to get the depth at CB our team needs and even add a potentially longterm backup QB.
The remaining picks I throw at special teams and a punter.
I've been mocking since roughly 2007 or so, and this is really the first time I've put together a roster like this and thought "wow, this is a Super Bowl caliber team."
But it totally is. We are just a couple pieces away and while we're on the doorstep this year, a strong offseason from Veach could ensure we get in the door.
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