Is it finally time to rebuild??

[Bill B]

The Skins will likely be the most active team in free agency this off-season. As much as I want to build through the draft we just don't have enough picks to do it all in one off-season or even two.
On the bright side what the Skins have done already is clear a lot of bad contracts off their books this season to make room for a lot of free agent additions next year. I think a new CBA will be reached and when it does the Skins will be in good shape and not be working frantically to re-work a bunch of contracts of their high priced vets and in the process hurt outer years with regards to cap space. I don't see the Skins going strong into the restricted FA pool. If they sign a bunch of mid priced FA's to replenish the roster that is fine by me. I think going after the highest priced guys may be a mistake as we have too many holes to fill.

I think a lot people forgot that one of the reasons the Skins had a lot of success in the previous Gibbs years was the team had an owner willing to shovel big bucks in areas like the plan B free agency pool - we simply stockpiled players on our roster as JKC was willing to fork over the money to keep that part of the roster ready to step in as injuries occured. Now Synder obviously overspent on a lot of FA's who were on the tail end of their career and also went along with a FO that traded a lot of their picks for restricted FA's, but I think he and the current team he has in place are not going to have this be their main method of building moving forward. I think we go after a lot of UFA's and also try and find as many gems like Banks as we can. At the same time we keep most of our draft picks and start the process of adding youth via the draft. In summary the silver lining of this season folks over others is we have cleared the books and are in much better shape from a cap perspective compared to other years. Not too mention I have heard that the upcoming 2011 Class is likely to be pretty deep compared to others.