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Well every cloud has a silver lining. If we perform as badly this season as everyone expects at least we will be drafting high in 2010 which appears to be as equally a deep a draft as 2009.
We should be able to get a stunning DL player in Carlos Dunlap, Gerald McCoy or Ndamukong Suh or a hell of a safety like Eric Berry or Taylor Mays. There are also players who for injury or academic reasons we can get lower in the draft like Myron Rolle and Sean Lee. The Top3 TEs in Jermaine Gresham, Rob Gronkowski and Dennis Pitna may all be better than Pettigrew. We can also make a run at local Bulls guy James Starks.
Free Agency will be tough if there is no cap because any valid candidate will likely choke on the mothballs as Ralph reluctantly opens his wallet. However during the season we shall hopefully see the OL gel into an effective unit and discover that Demetrius Bell is that guy we need defending the QBs blindside and saving us the need to draft a first round LT. Owens skills set should rub off on James Hardy and Steve Johnson, so a losing season could well be a very useful learning season.
However we might be stuck with the same Head Coach and Front Office, so no matter how many picks we stockpile, they will probably be spent stockpiling players in positions of comparative strength and ingoring areas of weakness.
Oh well
We should be able to get a stunning DL player in Carlos Dunlap, Gerald McCoy or Ndamukong Suh or a hell of a safety like Eric Berry or Taylor Mays. There are also players who for injury or academic reasons we can get lower in the draft like Myron Rolle and Sean Lee. The Top3 TEs in Jermaine Gresham, Rob Gronkowski and Dennis Pitna may all be better than Pettigrew. We can also make a run at local Bulls guy James Starks.
Free Agency will be tough if there is no cap because any valid candidate will likely choke on the mothballs as Ralph reluctantly opens his wallet. However during the season we shall hopefully see the OL gel into an effective unit and discover that Demetrius Bell is that guy we need defending the QBs blindside and saving us the need to draft a first round LT. Owens skills set should rub off on James Hardy and Steve Johnson, so a losing season could well be a very useful learning season.
However we might be stuck with the same Head Coach and Front Office, so no matter how many picks we stockpile, they will probably be spent stockpiling players in positions of comparative strength and ingoring areas of weakness.
Oh well
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