You're the GM, map out your offseason plan

Im Not Completely Against Trading Gardener,samuels Etc... Just For Draft Picks.

Take everything below with a pinch of salt, and do correct me mercilessly if I've made errors.

Here's something that baffles me. Why doesn't Gibbs' playbook feature any creative route running for the WRs? Brandon Stokely doesn't exactly have blazing speed, but how many times have you seen him catch TDs completely untouched, with no DBs within 10 yards of him? Surely his speed is not what's causing the separation. The separation is only attributable to creative route running, or Peyton being a shifty-yed mofo and conning the DBs, or both.

How ironic is it that Martyball in San Diego is looking much more exciting than Gibbs ball?

I'd seriously consider obtaining potentially 4 1st round picks in the draft - the # 5 pick from sucking this year, and three more if we trade Samuels, Ramsey & Gardner. I'd use the # 5 to sign Erasmus Jones, DE from Wisconsin, give one to the Colts as part of a trade for Dwight Freeney, and use the remaining two to trade up and nab Mike Williams.


1. Demote Don Breaux to offensive consultant (since Gibbs won't fire him). Bugel stays out of play calling, and focuses on teaching the O-line how to zone block for Portis. We don't need two conservative play callers calling the offensive shots. Gibbs needs to have a creative play caller to complement his predictable conservative style. Any suggestions for creative offensive coords with decent experience other than Martz or Fassel?

2. Not sure if we need both Byner and Breaux.

3. Hijack a good Left tackle and Center from the Steelers/Denver/Colts/Chiefs, like we did with the Jets in 2003.

Samuels is gone, and Dockery, Jansen & Thomas are the only linemen that stay. Any suggestions for linemen we can lure away from Denver/Steelers/Chiefs/Colts?

4. Resign Smoot and Pierce and keep the secondary intact. Barrow is gone.

5. Retain all defensive coaches (especially Blache). Daniels & Wynn are gone.

6. Rod Gardner traded for a pick. With our 1st round pick, we take Mike Williams. I keep Mccants purely for his red zone value, and keep Jacobs & Thrash as well. With Williams, even though there is no blazing speed, you can lob the ball in his general direction and guarantee he will win the 1 on 1 matchup like Moss, or a Todd Heap.

Regarding TEs/ H-backs, Kozlowski is gone.

8. Ideally, I'd also want to trade Ramsey to the Dolphins for their 1st round pick, and somehow end up signing Drew Brees. He may not have Ramsey's cannon, but he sees the field better and can throw with anticipation. As for him learning the nuances of Gibbs offense, it doesn't seem like its too complicated an offense to master.

9. Special teams - we fire Danny Smith and bring in a Gary Zauner (Ravens) or the like. As much as I hate Sellers for his boneheaded penalties, he is worth keeping for the blocks and tackles he makes on special teams - not to mention a decent replacement at H-back, should Cooley be injured.

Chad Morton is gone, and Antonio Brown gets a serious re-evaluation - his fumble was costly, but he did show some blazing speed on his first punt return.

This is what the skins of 2005 should ideally look like:

QB: Brees (1st String), Hasselback (2nd string), Brunell (3rd string), assuming Gibbs won't let Brunell go.

RB: Portis, Betts

H-back/TE: Cooley, Sellars, Royal

WRs: Coles, Mike Williams, Jacobs, Thrash, Mccants

O-line: Jansen, Thomas, Replacement Center, Dockery, Replacement LT (unless Wilson/Molinaro show tremedous improvement).

D-line: Erasmus Jones, Griffin, Salave'A, Freeney (cap permitting) with Warner & Evans as back ups - else, Warner starts.

Linebackers: Washington, Pierce, Lavar with Campbell, Clemons & Lemar as back ups.

DBs: Springs, Smoot, Harris - and a serious re-evaluation of Jimoh (at this point, he might be more valuable for us than drafting a 5th or 6th round DB.)

Safety: Taylor and Bowen, with Franz & Lott as back-ups.

Cap space: Saved from the release of Barrow, Daniels, Wynn, Samuels, Raymer, Gardner with Smoot and Pierce being signed to Cap-friendly deals. And then hope for the TV deal to be regotiated in 2006 to save us from hell.

#1 & 2 - Resign Smoot & Pierce

#3 - restructure Samuels, Wynn, and Brunell



Dump:

Morton, Kozlowski, Gardner (or trade), McCants, Cartwright, Friedman, Haley, Jimoh

Keep:

Warner, Salave'a, Boschetti, Clemons, Marshall, Clark, Lott, Franz, Sellars


When Free agency starts, we should pick up some o-line help (center, guard, tackle). Big, bruising short yardage back. A veteran TE that is more versatile than Koz. Another WR.

Draft:

WR (Mike Williams)

Pass rushing DE

DB (safety or CB)

O-lineman (if we still have enough picks)

You guys forgot about going out and finding a YOUNGER offensive mind, to be possibly the Offensive coordinator. Gibbs unless he makes some big changes to our scheme (and I think he will) system is way of of date.

First priorities should be:
Center
Power RB
DE

Second priorities:
WR (I think we would do better stealing one from another team like we did with Coles then to draft one)
DT
TE


With Jansen back and Wilson/Molinero with a year under thier belt, a center should improve the line.
Keep Barrow, the guy is a monster when healthy and won't hurt the cap.

Ditch Koz, Rock (sorry, I love him but not at his current weight), Friedman, Mcants, Morton, and a DE.

You guys forgot about going out and finding a YOUNGER offensive mind, to be possibly the Offensive coordinator. Gibbs unless he makes some big changes to our scheme (and I think he will) system is way of of date.

I mentioned that in my post....this guy would replace Don Breaux...but who? Would be cool to have a Martz or Fassel, but those guys won't be here for any more than 1 yr, till they get lured away by a head coaching position somewhere else.

I mentioned that in my post....this guy would replace Don Breaux...but who? Would be cool to have a Martz or Fassel, but those guys won't be here for any more than 1 yr, till they get lured away by a head coaching position somewhere else.

This a situation where its good to have Dan Synder as your owner. If he puts down the money, I'm sure we can get someone from the Chiefs, Colts or Rams staff to joon ours. I've been hoping all year for Mike Martz or Mike Tice to get fired and then join our staff as a consultant. But that doesn't look like its gonna happen.

Have you guys heard about the soap opera going on in St. Louis with Martz?

First he had the owner of the team send a letter to all the players saying his job was safe, then he calls out Kyle Turley in the press saying he's stealing money from the team by being on IR. Then he and Turley have a little face to face meeting and Martz has to have security escort him out of his office saying Turley threatened to kill him.

Martz isn't all there.

We Must Fire Cerrato. Get A Real Gm.
Re-sign= Smoot, Pierce, Salave'a, Warner, Evans, Hasselbeck, Marshall

Cut= Take The F***ng Hit With Brunnell, Morton, Barrow, Raymer,m Cartwrite

Trade= Samuels , And Package Gardner & Betts


Draft: Marcus Spears De, Lsu Or The Guy Out Of Boston College If Not I Want Mike Willaims Wr, Usc

Have you guys heard about the soap opera going on in St. Louis with Martz?

First he had the owner of the team send a letter to all the players saying his job was safe, then he calls out Kyle Turley in the press saying he's stealing money from the team by being on IR. Then he and Turley have a little face to face meeting and Martz has to have security escort him out of his office saying Turley threatened to kill him.

Martz isn't all there.

Didn't Martz also say something like his players have been worried he might get fired because Mortensen said something on ESPN and that's why they haven't played well?

Can we blame our season on Don Banks or Lenny P?