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Who stays, who goes? An early offseason look at the Falcons’ 2020 roster, including free agents


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23 minutes ago, vel said:

That's the ONLY thing I've thought about. It would make sense. But then... Who's playing LG? Lol it's all confusing. 

A mixture of Carpenter and possibly Brown if Schweitzer becomes the new C and Gono gets the swing OT/G role it’s about all I got :shrug:.

This is all dependent on what our run scheme looks like.Imagine if they off load Mack and Free and go to a power gap type blocking scheme and Ito becomes the scat back and we ride Ollison and Hill :shrug: who knows.

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9 hours ago, vel said:

I got back and forth on Hooper. On one hand, TEs are so hard to find and the best offenses tend to have top tier TEs. They are unique players in that they are passing threats even when in blocking looks. Yet, look at the Saints. They traded Graham for Unger and haven't missed him. 

As for the others, try to restructure Trufant and Freeman. Bring back Clayborn, Davison, Means, BWW, and Smith. Let the rest walk. Cut Bailey, Schaub, Stocker, Sambrailo, and Carpenter. Restructure Mack by adding a year to his deal and moving some of that cap hit out. 

Sign a LB and some DL. Chase Graham Glasgow HARD. Draft the best defensive players with your first three picks. 

No reason to restructure Freeman when he's ineffective. Time to move on.

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3 hours ago, kiwifalcon said:

A mixture of Carpenter and possibly Brown if Schweitzer becomes the new C and Gono gets the swing OT/G role it’s about all I got :shrug:.

This is all dependent on what our run scheme looks like.Imagine if they off load Mack and Free and go to a power gap type blocking scheme and Ito becomes the scat back and we ride Ollison and Hill :shrug: who knows.

We'll be in a world of hurt if we replace Mack with Schweitzer. Wes is only good in spurts, like Garland was. Dude will get severely exposed as a full time starter.

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16 minutes ago, stizz said:

We'll be in a world of hurt if we replace Mack with Schweitzer. Wes is only good in spurts, like Garland was. Dude will get severely exposed as a full time starter.

Maybe not at C.

G yes it’s all up n the air god knows what they have planned up front.

For me Schweitzer is the logical replacement for Mack.Hes started on either side of him for the last 3 years.If anyone’s on the roster is taking Mack’s spot it’s him.

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3 minutes ago, kiwifalcon said:

Maybe not at C.

G yes it’s all up n the air god knows what they have planned up front.

For me Schweitzer is the logical replacement for Mack.Hes started on either side of him for the last 3 years.If anyone’s on the roster is taking Mack’s spot it’s him.

Then hopefully we are in the process of re signing Mack right now

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12 hours ago, Gold4425 said:

This is just my opinion. For the Falcons to make a deep run in the playoffs or make it to the SB and keep the fan base behind the FO. It is going to take a miracle to juggle our cap restraints, keep the RIGHT players, have an almost perfect draft, acquire the right F A's with the lack of spending money, coupled with signing and putting the right position Coaches where we can get the most out of our roster.  TD and the FO have their work cut out for them!!!! But miracles can happen and I hope one happens with the Falcons. It is a new year. 2020-it is on!

I concur on all accounts.  Admit I’m skeptical as we’ve proven to be suspect evaluators of talent in many cases but hoping for miracle.   If not, AB will have to be dealing early pink slips or he’ll lose what little fan base is clinging on.  

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Cut Neal, Bailey, Sombrero, Free, Allen, Stocker, Schaub, Ito, Carter, Thomas, Harlow, Powell, Senat and Carpenter. Frees up $30.2M, gets us to $41.6 under and opens some roster spots that can be upgraded.

Let Beasley, Clayborn, Means, Crawford, Bennett, Hardy, Taylor, Wilcox, Cyprien, Ishmael, Neasman, Wetzel, Schweitzer, Harlow and Bosher walk.

Re-sign Hoop, Campbell, Davison, Hill, Blidi, Barner, Smith, Allen and Koo for $21.4M which brings us back down to $20.2M.

Sign, Yannick Ngakoue, Anthony Harris with $13.3M in year one of back loaded deals. Leaves $6.9M for the draft.

Fill the last twelve spots with draft picks, UDFAs or maybe a couple $500K FAs that won't hit the cap. Seven of em won't be active on game day anyway. Might have to restructure Bloodline and push a couple mil to make it all fit. Roll with something like this in 2020:

  • QB – Matt Ryan, Kurt Benkert
  • WR – Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, Russell Gage, Olamide Zaccheus, Christian Blake
  • RB – Brian Hill, Qadree Ollison, Kenjon Barner, Keith Smith, DRAFT
  • TE – Austin Hooper, Jaden Graham, Alex Gray
  • OC – Alex Mack, DRAFT
  • OG – Joe Thuney, Chris Lindstrom, Matt Gono, Jamon Brown
  • OT – Jake Matthews, Kaleb McGary, DRAFT, UDFA
  • DE – Yannick Ngakoue, Takkarist McKinley, John Cominsky, Austin Larkin, DRAFT 
  • DT – Grady Jarrett, Tyeler Davison, Jacob Tuioti-Mariner, DRAFT
  • LB – Deion Jones, De’Vondre Campbell, Foyesade Oluokun, DRAFTUDFA, UDFA
  • CB – Desmond Trufant, Isaiah Oliver, Kendall Sheffield, Blidi Wreh-Wilson, Jordan Miller
  • FS – Damontae Kazee, DRAFT
  • SS – Anthony Harris, UDFA, UDFA
  • K – Younghoe Koo
  • P – Ryan Neal
  • LS – Josh Harris
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G James Carpenter: The Falcons won’t save much money by releasing Carpenter, who ended the season on injured reserve due to concussions. But if the Falcons think there’s a better option at a value in free agency, they could go in that direction.

G Jamon Brown: There isn’t much financial flexibility to get out of Brown’s contract if the Falcons feel inclined to do so. If they want to go that route, trading Brown would be the solution.

 

We have a lot of bad contracts, but these two take the cake. Why would we sign them to team unfriendly /almost guaranteed contracts?.. Was TD bidding against himself? They both sucked and we're stuck with them for 2020.

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6 hours ago, FalconFanSince1970 said:

Cut Neal, Bailey, Sombrero, Free, Allen, Stocker, Schaub, Ito, Carter, Thomas, Harlow, Powell, Senat and Carpenter. Frees up $30.2M, gets us to $41.6 under and opens some roster spots that can be upgraded.

Let Beasley, Clayborn, Means, Crawford, Bennett, Hardy, Taylor, Wilcox, Cyprien, Ishmael, Neasman, Wetzel, Schweitzer, Harlow and Bosher walk.

Re-sign Hoop, Campbell, Davison, Hill, Blidi, Barner, Smith, Allen and Koo for $21.4M which brings us back down to $20.2M.

Sign, Yannick Ngakoue, Anthony Harris with $13.3M in year one of back loaded deals. Leaves $6.9M for the draft.

Fill the last twelve spots with draft picks, UDFAs or maybe a couple $500K FAs that won't hit the cap. Seven of em won't be active on game day anyway. Might have to restructure Bloodline and push a couple mil to make it all fit. Roll with something like this in 2020:

  • QB – Matt Ryan, Kurt Benkert
  • WR – Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, Russell Gage, Olamide Zaccheus, Christian Blake
  • RB – Brian Hill, Qadree Ollison, Kenjon Barner, Keith Smith, DRAFT
  • TE – Austin Hooper, Jaden Graham, Alex Gray
  • OC – Alex Mack, DRAFT
  • OG – Joe Thuney, Chris Lindstrom, Matt Gono, Jamon Brown
  • OT – Jake Matthews, Kaleb McGary, DRAFT, UDFA
  • DE – Yannick Ngakoue, Takkarist McKinley, John Cominsky, Austin Larkin, DRAFT 
  • DT – Grady Jarrett, Tyeler Davison, Jacob Tuioti-Mariner, DRAFT
  • LB – Deion Jones, De’Vondre Campbell, Foyesade Oluokun, DRAFTUDFA, UDFA
  • CB – Desmond Trufant, Isaiah Oliver, Kendall Sheffield, Blidi Wreh-Wilson, Jordan Miller
  • FS – Damontae Kazee, DRAFT
  • SS – Anthony Harris, UDFA, UDFA
  • K – Younghoe Koo
  • P – Ryan Neal
  • LS – Josh Harris

wait, what is THIS? you make a news years resolution to stop making nick names for the players??

 

:ninja::lol:

 

oh, but I like what you have there old timer  ;)

 

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If they're cutting Carpenter, they'll do it soon. He has a 1 mil bonus and 1.25 mil of salary that becomes guaranteed if he's on the roster 3rd  day of the 2020 season. If I'm reading Google correctly, that'd be March 20 or 21 2020.

If the new CBA is signed soon, changes some of the numbers.

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56 minutes ago, vafalconfan said:

G James Carpenter: The Falcons won’t save much money by releasing Carpenter, who ended the season on injured reserve due to concussions. But if the Falcons think there’s a better option at a value in free agency, they could go in that direction.

G Jamon Brown: There isn’t much financial flexibility to get out of Brown’s contract if the Falcons feel inclined to do so. If they want to go that route, trading Brown would be the solution.

 

We have a lot of bad contracts, but these two take the cake. Why would we sign them to team unfriendly /almost guaranteed contracts?.. Was TD bidding against himself? They both sucked and we're stuck with them for 2020.

Troffed.  Never Go Full Dimitroff. <_<

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