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Post by devongent on Aug 4, 2024 13:10:07 GMT -7
Center is a huge potential weakness to me, especially if Froholdt goes down in season, as he did in practice. Time for the Cardinals to lay down the chips and recruit a young 'legacy Center'. - Round 2 in the 2025 draft...  |
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Post by Dry Heat on Aug 4, 2024 15:24:01 GMT -7
Center is a huge potential weakness to me, especially if Froholdt goes down in season, as he did in practice. Time for the Cardinals to lay down the chips and recruit a young 'legacy Center'. - Round 2 in the 2025 draft... You can draft players and you can sign players, and there is a time for both. I’ve always said you develop a team by drafting and developing the expensive positions in early rounds 1-2 and use cap money to fill out the roster’s other positions and weaknesses once you’re ready to compete. The question is if we are ready to compete yet. I think we are a year away, and are set up nicely. I feel we have a shot at an injury discount on a proven top 5 center who is younger by a bit than Froholdt, and young enough to easily play 5+ more years. He would be in a situation where he could heal up properly behind Froholdt and then be a potential upgrade battling it out at center in 2025 just as we start to get legitimately competitive. We have tons of cap space for once. If not for the injury, Williams would have been one of the top free agents this year. He has now passed an NFL physical. He’s the youngest and best remaining free agent. I think he makes a ton of sense, for this year and especially for 2025-28. Use round 2 next year to grab Dline, OLB or CB. |
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Post by belac44 on Aug 4, 2024 15:32:06 GMT -7
Center is a huge potential weakness to me, especially if Froholdt goes down in season, as he did in practice. Time for the Cardinals to lay down the chips and recruit a young 'legacy Center'. - Round 2 in the 2025 draft... Could have done that the last two years and chose not to. |
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Post by CardsFanQC on Aug 5, 2024 3:59:55 GMT -7
Time for the Cardinals to lay down the chips and recruit a young 'legacy Center'. - Round 2 in the 2025 draft... Could have done that the last two years and chose not to. Thanks to SK and the idiotic decision to give up a #1 for Hollywood Brown who is shorter than KM1 .. bye bye to Lindebaum. All of these decisions were because SK drafted 3 receivers in one draft and none of them worked out when in fact the Cards could have easily had either Metcalf or McLaurin. |
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Post by belac44 on Aug 5, 2024 10:11:19 GMT -7
Could have done that the last two years and chose not to. Thanks to SK and the idiotic decision to give up a #1 for Hollywood Brown who is shorter than KM1 .. bye bye to Lindebaum. All of these decisions were because SK drafted 3 receivers in one draft and none of them worked out when in fact the Cards could have easily had either Metcalf or McLaurin. Bad move for sure, even this current staff passed up two guys I wanted at center in the second. John Michael Schmitz (JMS) from Minn 2023. Jackson Powers-Johnson from Oregon this year. Let alone some guards we also passed up. I like Melton and CB was a need, but we did pass on interior oline. Hopefully Gaines, Evan Brown and Isaiah Adams can step up in the middle and make it a moot point. Ojulari not playing well last year and now he is injured so he cannot make me feel better he was chosen over a center. |
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Post by devongent on Aug 5, 2024 11:35:55 GMT -7
Could have done that the last two years and chose not to. Yes indeed. - A constant talking point on the forum, and each year I am thinking the Cardinals are going to do it, but each year we pass it over. Third time lucky..? |
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Post by devongent on Aug 5, 2024 11:39:18 GMT -7
I wanted at center in the second. John Michael Schmitz (JMS) from Minn 2023. Jackson Powers-Johnson from Oregon this year. Ah, at the mention of these names they float back into my mind like good long lost friends. |
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Post by thomas cat on Aug 8, 2024 18:42:37 GMT -7
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Post by Dry Heat on Aug 8, 2024 22:57:28 GMT -7
I said we should sign him partly to block Seattle, who has only $10 million cap and is in awful cap shape next year. Up to $6 million for one year, $3 million guaranteed, will be a steal for one of last year’s top 5 centers, 80+ PFF, only 27. Gahhhh! |
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Post by MT Diesel on Aug 10, 2024 13:50:31 GMT -7
I said we should sign him partly to block Seattle, who has only $10 million cap and is in awful cap shape next year. Up to $6 million for one year, $3 million guaranteed, will be a steal for one of last year’s top 5 centers, 80+ PFF, only 27. Gahhhh! SK was the Monti Hall of FAs...I will take the more conservative Monti O approach of building through the draft and less reaching for FAs who are not as good as the billing most of times. |
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