This season is over. The product on the field is broken and can not be fixed immediately.
Here is what I would do immediately in order to prepare for next season.
1. Call Doug into the office and tell him he needs to give up the play calling. They need to change it up to see if they can get the offense moving. Doesn't matter who he choices to call plays, but much the same as we think they should bench Carson I think Doug needs to take a step with his play calling. He is panicking, taking too long to get plays in and that is effecting the offense
2. I would not bench Wentz as the starter. Hurts is not ready to be a starter in this league. He is not Joe Burrow coming out of college. He was a 2nd round pick for a reason. With no preseason this year I don't think its fair to Hurts to make him the starter right now. There is much more of a chance to ruin him to. Now would I at times pull Wentz from the game and give Hurts a series. Yes a series not one play, a series. Start to finish a drive.
After the season
1. If the offense does not start moving with a new play caller then its over for Doug. Its amazing how far he has fallen since the Super Bowl, his fall to me is even worse than Wentz. Another year no matte who he has at QB is not going to make this better.
2. Howie needs to hire a true GM. There has been a lot of movement in the front office over the past 18 months, from Joe to the gets as the GM to Andrew to the Browns as the Gm that is a ton of turnover. I do think Lurie really trusts Howie so I don't believe he will fire him. But bringing in a real good personnel guy to be the GM makes the most sense here.
Player movement
There is no way we can do a complete overhaul of the roster this offseason. The cap situation is not good for that. However, they could make some moves that get them under the cap and give them a situation where by 2022 they have a full reset.
1. Trade Carson Wentz to the Colts. Riech wants him, I think its good for all involved. The cap ramifications of trading Wentz are not as bad as you think. In fact they are neutral. In other words the hit equals the savings. So they could move on from Wentz without a huge cap hit. I think the Colts would be willing to deal their late first round pick plus for Wentz. Not going to get a huge hall but a first plus a player may happen. This makes sense for both teams and I do think it could happen. Also keep an eye on the Jets here. They have a late first from Seattle that they could deal for Wentz.
2. Trade Fletcher Cox to the Las Vegas for a 2nd and 4th round pick. Another high salary guy who has value especially to somebody like Las Vegas. This is less about Fletcher and more about getting some value in draft picks and also reset of the salary cap.
3. Trade Lane Johnson. Should be able to get a late first for Lane. Why trade Lane? He is getting a little older and starting to break down. The salary cap savings are needed in order to help rebuild. The draft picks also will help.
4. Trade Zach Ertz. Should be able to get a 2nd for Ertz. Contract demands and age are the issue here. Need to keep Goedert around and give him the money.
Jeffrey, DeSean, Malik Jackson are all shown the door.
This resets the cap at that point they will need to rebuild. Is Hurts the future? If not they should get a very high pick this year. Maybe they can get up to get Justin Fields or somebody like that. Right now though the concentration should be a reset to this roster and that means taking players like above marketing and trading them to reset their salary cap situation.
yes we are in a dire situation. Its the whole organization right now. Top to bottom and Lurie needs to take over immediately and start to gear this towards next year. I don't think simply changing the QB makes this team a Super Bowl contender their issues are much deeper. Its the entire organization. They need to stop living in 2017 and start living for 2021 and beyond.
Here is what I would do immediately in order to prepare for next season.
1. Call Doug into the office and tell him he needs to give up the play calling. They need to change it up to see if they can get the offense moving. Doesn't matter who he choices to call plays, but much the same as we think they should bench Carson I think Doug needs to take a step with his play calling. He is panicking, taking too long to get plays in and that is effecting the offense
2. I would not bench Wentz as the starter. Hurts is not ready to be a starter in this league. He is not Joe Burrow coming out of college. He was a 2nd round pick for a reason. With no preseason this year I don't think its fair to Hurts to make him the starter right now. There is much more of a chance to ruin him to. Now would I at times pull Wentz from the game and give Hurts a series. Yes a series not one play, a series. Start to finish a drive.
After the season
1. If the offense does not start moving with a new play caller then its over for Doug. Its amazing how far he has fallen since the Super Bowl, his fall to me is even worse than Wentz. Another year no matte who he has at QB is not going to make this better.
2. Howie needs to hire a true GM. There has been a lot of movement in the front office over the past 18 months, from Joe to the gets as the GM to Andrew to the Browns as the Gm that is a ton of turnover. I do think Lurie really trusts Howie so I don't believe he will fire him. But bringing in a real good personnel guy to be the GM makes the most sense here.
Player movement
There is no way we can do a complete overhaul of the roster this offseason. The cap situation is not good for that. However, they could make some moves that get them under the cap and give them a situation where by 2022 they have a full reset.
1. Trade Carson Wentz to the Colts. Riech wants him, I think its good for all involved. The cap ramifications of trading Wentz are not as bad as you think. In fact they are neutral. In other words the hit equals the savings. So they could move on from Wentz without a huge cap hit. I think the Colts would be willing to deal their late first round pick plus for Wentz. Not going to get a huge hall but a first plus a player may happen. This makes sense for both teams and I do think it could happen. Also keep an eye on the Jets here. They have a late first from Seattle that they could deal for Wentz.
2. Trade Fletcher Cox to the Las Vegas for a 2nd and 4th round pick. Another high salary guy who has value especially to somebody like Las Vegas. This is less about Fletcher and more about getting some value in draft picks and also reset of the salary cap.
3. Trade Lane Johnson. Should be able to get a late first for Lane. Why trade Lane? He is getting a little older and starting to break down. The salary cap savings are needed in order to help rebuild. The draft picks also will help.
4. Trade Zach Ertz. Should be able to get a 2nd for Ertz. Contract demands and age are the issue here. Need to keep Goedert around and give him the money.
Jeffrey, DeSean, Malik Jackson are all shown the door.
This resets the cap at that point they will need to rebuild. Is Hurts the future? If not they should get a very high pick this year. Maybe they can get up to get Justin Fields or somebody like that. Right now though the concentration should be a reset to this roster and that means taking players like above marketing and trading them to reset their salary cap situation.
yes we are in a dire situation. Its the whole organization right now. Top to bottom and Lurie needs to take over immediately and start to gear this towards next year. I don't think simply changing the QB makes this team a Super Bowl contender their issues are much deeper. Its the entire organization. They need to stop living in 2017 and start living for 2021 and beyond.
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