My prediction.

[Intellectually Honest]

I hope I am dead wrong, but it seems based on the rumors, that TD will indeed go after overpriced old free agents in a desperate attempt to keep his job. By doing so he will saddle the Falcons yet again with too much money in all the wrong places, and after he gets fired next year, the Falcons will be paying for his blunders for the next few years.

I have a sick feeling about this. I know that fans want to see him spend instead of being too frugal, but at the same time the team needs to spend wisely. Based on TD's blunders in the draft when things look desperate, I think he will jump the gun and overpay big time to get what he wants. Don't be surprised if he pays Mack, for example, 11 million + per year, just to get the guy; not to mention whatever guaranteed money Mack will receive. Mack is a good player, but no center is worth that much, especially at that age. Desperate men do desperate things.

[kiwifalcon]

He's damned if he does he's damned if he doesn't.

At this point in time I believe there is a % on this board who are just going to bag TD regardless good = someone else BAD = TD regardless.

[paulitik]

Let's just burn it all down. Everything. 

 

We go after the best FAs, we're screwed. We don't, we're screwed. 

Screw it,I'm voting for Trump. ***** everything,

 

Let's all just watch the world burn.

[Intellectually Honest]

3 minutes ago, paulitik said:

Let's just burn it all down. Everything. 

 

We go after the best FAs, we're screwed. We don't, we're screwed. 

Screw it,I'm voting for Trump. ***** everything,

 

Let's all just watch the world burn.

I don't recall TD rumored to go after any of the best free agents this year? What are you even talking about?

[FalconFan13]

16 minutes ago, Intellectually Honest said:

I hope I am dead wrong, but it seems based on the rumors, that TD will indeed go after overpriced old free agents in a desperate attempt to keep his job. By doing so he will saddle the Falcons yet again with too much money in all the wrong places, and after he gets fired next year, the Falcons will be paying for his blunders for the next few years.

I have a sick feeling about this. I know that fans want to see him spend instead of being too frugal, but at the same time the team needs to spend wisely. Based on TD's blunders in the draft when things look desperate, I think he will jump the gun and overpay big time to get what he wants. Don't be surprised if he pays Mack, for example, 11 million + per year, just to get the guy; not to mention whatever guaranteed money Mack will receive. Mack is a good player, but no center is worth that much, especially at that age. Desperate men do desperate things.

Nothing personal but signing 1 30 yr old player that is at the top 5 of his position for a position as important as Center which is a top 5 position to me is not going after overpriced free agents.  It's going after your weakest spot on the team and upgrading it with the best player available to do so.   If you consider  Iloka, Benjamin, Irvin, Laurinitis and Mitchell Schwartz also old free agents i don't know what to tell you.  Those are the main guys he has been looking at so far and their all under 30 yrs old.  Nelson and Mack are the guys over 30 but even then their not that old and are still playing at a high level and many other teams besides us are going after their services as well because of their talent they played at.

[paulitik]

11 minutes ago, Intellectually Honest said:

I don't recall TD rumored to go after any of the best free agents this year? What are you even talking about?

What are you? I'm not talking about TD, I'm talking about this place. There is an overreaction for every argument.

[kiwifalcon]

12 minutes ago, Intellectually Honest said:

I don't recall TD rumored to go after any of the best free agents this year? What are you even talking about?

He's referring to what the fans want.

See in a lot of fans eyes TD can do know right so regardless of who we get TD is screwed because they'll never be satisfied.

[kiwifalcon]

3 minutes ago, FalconFan13 said:

Nothing personal but signing 1 30 yr old player that is at the top 5 of his position for a position as important as Center which is a top 5 position to me is not going after overpriced free agents.  It's going after your weakest spot on the team and upgrading it with the best player available to do so.   If you consider  Iloka, Benjamin, Irvin, Laurinitis and Mitchell Schwartz also old free agents i don't know what to tell you.  Those are the main guys he has been looking at so far and their all under 30 yrs old.  Nelson and Mack are the guys over 30 but even then their not that old and are still playing at a high level and many other teams besides us are going after their services as well because of their talent they played at.

THIS.

If we walked away with the haul you mentioned I'd be quietly happy with that.

[FalconFan13]

1 minute ago, kiwifalcon said:

THIS.

If we walked away with the haul you mentioned I'd be quietly happy with that.

Kiwi bro even if we get like 3 or 4 of them i would be thrilled.  Mack + Benjamin + Iloka and im happy with FA.  Anything else on top of that is just money.

That allows us to target Edge rusher, MLB, WLB, and RG in the draft all positions that are very strong.  **** even RG wouldn't be mandatory as Person can slide over to RG.  You put Mack at center and either Schraedder or Schwartz on the opposite side of Person and i bet he can get the job done at RG at atleast a solid level without having to worry about snapping the ball.

[kiwifalcon]

1 minute ago, FalconFan13 said:

Kiwi bro even if we get like 3 or 4 of them i would be thrilled.  Mack + Benjamin + Iloka and im happy with FA.  Anything else on top of that is just money.

That allows us to target Edge rusher, MLB, WLB, and RG in the draft all positions that are very strong.  **** even RG wouldn't be mandatory as Person can slide over to RG.  You put Mack at center and either Schraedder or Schwartz on the opposite side of Person and i bet he can get the job done at RG at atleast a solid level without having to worry about snapping the ball.

I'm with you Bro.

You know I've had my unrealistic FA wants and I get that from a lot of fans but now I've kind of locked in where we are going now and who where going with.People say we'll overpay for Mack if we go there but seriously the 32 teams involved in FA have upto a billion $$$$ to spend and youcan bet a lot of them will be giving it a fair nudge.

We're not in that position to push the boat out as far as alot want us to your perscribed solution carries alotof sense for me and is about where we are financially. 

[FalconFan13]

17 minutes ago, kiwifalcon said:

I'm with you Bro.

You know I've had my unrealistic FA wants and I get that from a lot of fans but now I've kind of locked in where we are going now and who where going with.People say we'll overpay for Mack if we go there but seriously the 32 teams involved in FA have upto a billion $$$$ to spend and youcan bet a lot of them will be giving it a fair nudge.

We're not in that position to push the boat out as far as alot want us to your perscribed solution carries alotof sense for me and is about where we are financially. 

Yeah man tons of money out there and it's just gonna go up i truthfully don't worry about the cap to much as i do alot of the cap stuff my self and checking out contracts alot.  The regular season is cool and i like watching football but my favorite time of the nfl is the offseason during the combine, draft, and FA periods.    Capologist taught me a crap ton of stuff about the cap back in the days and i have done alot more research myself on contracts and stuff like that since then.  The 1 conclusion i have come up with is the cap number is just that a number and no matter what you want you can find a way to get it by rearranging numbers on contracts to make bigger hits later and still get what you want now. Then the next offseason go more with the draft and lighter on FA when you have less needs to recoup some of that money and buildiing depth in the draft. So players numbers don't phase me much unless it's just crazy for what talent i think they bring to the field like with Dawyne Allens almost 8 mil cap hit he got from indy i would have never given him that much lol. 

Now on to more important thing i just noticed after the board change  i lost a CRAP TON OF POSTS.  It did it to me once before on the last change before this one.  I was at around 9k posts on the 1st one they finally gave me them back.  and this time i was around 15k posts and now im back down to 3k O.o   I feel violated XD  Wonder if i can get someone to fix them again.

[hjerry]

This is pure insanity. I don't know how anyone can read the reports of who we're interested in, and come to that conclusion.

smdh 

[*Old Pappy Falcon*]

I just hope we get all of the Fa's........we need them.........BAD!

[toadfishtom]

Why so negative? 

 

 

[The Great American]

My prediction:  Free Agency rarely lives up to the hype and expectations.  

[blizzard_falcon]

9 hours ago, hjerry said:

This is pure insanity. I don't know how anyone can read the reports of who we're interested in, and come to that conclusion.

smdh 

You mean Danny Trevathan, Alex Mack, George Iloka, Mitchell Schwartz, Bruce Irvin, Jaye Howard, Travis Benjamin, and Mohamed Sanu aren't "overpriced old free agents"?!?  But ... but that would mean the OP is just overreacting based on our interest in James Lauranitis and ignoring everyone else we've been linked to!

[Intellectually Honest]

11 hours ago, kiwifalcon said:

He's damned if he does he's damned if he doesn't.

At this point in time I believe there is a % on this board who are just going to bag TD regardless good = someone else BAD = TD regardless.

Nice false dichotomy. How about the Falcons upgrade center without overspending? Is that an option or do you think like TD the only way to solve things is by overpaying for it?

It is like someone who drives a beat up lemon and decides they need a better car, so they are looking to buy a Mercedes Benz for 100k that is used, has 200k miles on it, and starting to show it's wear and tear.

How about the Falcons go for long term problem solving rather than just trying to band aid everything? Also how many times have we seen free agents do great on one team and totally bomb on another. You guys act as if you can just plug and play guys and that they will match their performace from one team to the next. It doesn't work that way.

[Bring It]

11 hours ago, Intellectually Honest said:

I hope I am dead wrong, but it seems based on the rumors, that TD will indeed go after overpriced old free agents in a desperate attempt to keep his job. By doing so he will saddle the Falcons yet again with too much money in all the wrong places, and after he gets fired next year, the Falcons will be paying for his blunders for the next few years.

I have a sick feeling about this. I know that fans want to see him spend instead of being too frugal, but at the same time the team needs to spend wisely. Based on TD's blunders in the draft when things look desperate, I think he will jump the gun and overpay big time to get what he wants. Don't be surprised if he pays Mack, for example, 11 million + per year, just to get the guy; not to mention whatever guaranteed money Mack will receive. Mack is a good player, but no center is worth that much, especially at that age. Desperate men do desperate things.

You couldn't be more wrong.

TD has learned to stay away from over the hill deadbeats.........IN SPADES.

Actually, the Falcons will spend very little on FA and rely on Fresh - Hungry rookies...........picking some good young talent for good value.

[Intellectually Honest]

10 minutes ago, Bring It said:

You couldn't be more wrong.

TD has learned to stay away from over the hill deadbeats.........IN SPADES.

Actually, the Falcons will spend very little on FA and rely on Fresh - Hungry rookies...........picking some good young talent for good value.

WTF are you talking about? What free agent that TD has brought in that is young and not a dead beat?

[PokerSteve]

11 hours ago, paulitik said:

Let's just burn it all down. Everything. 

 

We go after the best FAs, we're screwed. We don't, we're screwed. 

Screw it,I'm voting for Trump. ***** everything,

 

Let's all just watch the world burn.

[paulitik]

3 minutes ago, PokerSteve said:

Sadly, this little guy will be rounded up, put in a camp, loaded in a train car and "sent back to Mexico" when Supreme Leader Trump takes over in January. 

Coincidentally Generalissimo "The Donald" will have a new lighter shaded toupee.  

[PokerSteve]

2 hours ago, The Great American said:

My prediction:  Free Agency rarely lives up to the hype and expectations.  

Because TD is a Settler! The boy has his hoop and stick, the girl her faceless doll, mother has her cabbages, and TD has his over-the-hill, bargain-basement, injury-prone FA scrubs!

 

[PokerSteve]

2 minutes ago, paulitik said:

Sadly, this little guy will be rounded up, put in a camp, loaded in a train car and "sent back to Mexico" when Supreme Leader Trump takes over in January. 

Coincidentally Generalissimo "The Donald" will have a new lighter shaded toupee.  

Viva la revolucion! Viva the new Supreme Leader! Long live his lighter-shaded toupee!! War soon! Go now quickly, and girdeth thou thine loins!

[Bobby.Digital]

45 minutes ago, Intellectually Honest said:

Nice false dichotomy. How about the Falcons upgrade center without overspending? Is that an option or do you think like TD the only way to solve things is by overpaying for it?

It is like someone who drives a beat up lemon and decides they need a better car, so they are looking to buy a Mercedes Benz for 100k that is used, has 200k miles on it, and starting to show it's wear and tear.

How about the Falcons go for long term problem solving rather than just trying to band aid everything? Also how many times have we seen free agents do great on one team and totally bomb on another. You guys act as if you can just plug and play guys and that they will match their performace from one team to the next. It doesn't work that way.

Lmao spot on post. Well put. 

[Flying Falcon]

My prediction: Shanahan will drag this offense to his dwelling place; he77. And Quinn will end his 3 year Falcon's HC career on a sour note for being a puppet of Kyle. And it will take us 10-15 years to clean up the mess that those two will leave behind. And quality FA will not want to touch us with a 20 ft pole.