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I know it's popular to bash Graves right now over Boston and I can see why but he really is in a bad situation here.
He's got the most money of any team to spend in FA but consider the "terms".
1) Signing bonus is always an issue with us, FA's want bonuses, often 2 tiers(like Jake's deal) we don't like to do that.
2) We have no starting QB and no starting WR's, how do you sell a QB a team with no WR's, how do you sell a WR a team with no QB's? Something has to break the logjam but what?
3) The best way to get in bigname players is to overpay, but that ultimately winds up with a team with little depth, when you play half your games in extreme heat, that makes for a bad recipe for injury.
4) His head coach has a short term contract working for an owner notorious for firing coaches. How do you sell FA's on a team with a coach in that position?
I'm honestly beginning to wonder how the Cards are going to sign anybody, I think we're going to end up getting mainly guys nobody else wants.
So Graves may well be a puppet, but his job is MUCH tougher to do here than it would be elsewhere.
Last week I wasn't so bad I figured we lost one guy I really wanted. But today I'm beginning to think we're going to be the first NFL team in history to be fined for not spending enough of our cap money and we'll be countersuing saying "hey we want to spend it nobody will sign with us!"
He's got the most money of any team to spend in FA but consider the "terms".
1) Signing bonus is always an issue with us, FA's want bonuses, often 2 tiers(like Jake's deal) we don't like to do that.
2) We have no starting QB and no starting WR's, how do you sell a QB a team with no WR's, how do you sell a WR a team with no QB's? Something has to break the logjam but what?
3) The best way to get in bigname players is to overpay, but that ultimately winds up with a team with little depth, when you play half your games in extreme heat, that makes for a bad recipe for injury.
4) His head coach has a short term contract working for an owner notorious for firing coaches. How do you sell FA's on a team with a coach in that position?
I'm honestly beginning to wonder how the Cards are going to sign anybody, I think we're going to end up getting mainly guys nobody else wants.
So Graves may well be a puppet, but his job is MUCH tougher to do here than it would be elsewhere.
Last week I wasn't so bad I figured we lost one guy I really wanted. But today I'm beginning to think we're going to be the first NFL team in history to be fined for not spending enough of our cap money and we'll be countersuing saying "hey we want to spend it nobody will sign with us!"