kidhawk
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Seymour":34pud83s said:kidhawk":34pud83s said:I remember having this conversation for Wilson when he got his first "mega-deal". Truth is, having a franchise qb means not being able to pay other players, and we made that choice already. Wilson is still here and many other high paid players are not. We need to continue to build the offense and the cost of this is having a down to earth defense.
Exactly the point I just made above. 100% agree. I hope Pete knows and buys into this. Signing Lockett and Brown indicates he does, but still is a change in his recent and past philosophy.
I think he does as well. We went all in with Wilson from his rookie year. We gave him the number 1 defense to prop him up while he got up to speed (so to speak) but there's only so much cap space. Now it's Wilson's team and we will soon find out (over the next 2 seasons) if we can have enough offense to offset the down to earth defense. I am thinking the plan puts our defense in the 10 - 15 ranks and hopefully builds the offense to top 5 in the league. Will that get us a title? Too early to know, but we have our first true franchise quarterback in Wilson and I for one would like to see what that can lead to.