Yesterday, 05:55 PM
(Yesterday, 04:49 PM)jj22 Wrote: Instead of double dipping on DT for need in a weak draft last year, they should have put some effort into FA DT's instead of a rebound hire in Rankins because once again their approach is not to sign a FA until they are out of the running with their FA's. Proactive and not reactive. That reactive approach leads to and has always lead to failure.
Once they realize they can't re-sign their own, they are left with scraps in FA. And thus that is how you get the Rankins, Scotts, Owens of the FA classes.
Hindsight is 20/20 but....everyone was super interested in us signing Christian Wilkins. Had we done that everyone would have proclaimed we were amazing and were all in on free agency. The dude hurt his foot early in the year missed all but 5 games and there is serious concern he may need another surgery and miss another chunk of this upcoming season. The Raiders have a TON of money now sunk in a guy who may never really deliver any value and they can't get out of that deal for at least one more year. Major foot injuries on big guys approaching 30 are usually death sentences.
The right plan is the plan that works. The wrong plan is the one that doesn't. Very few ever go back though and talk about the consensus "right plans" that didn't work either because they are too busy harping on our plan that was wrong here. Right now, we still probably have a better chance of getting value out of the two DT's we drafted last year than the Raiders do of getting Value out of Wilkins. We will see what happens but had we taken and connected on the biggest possible swing at DT last year we still would have been screwed so I think it's kind of tough to look at it as if there was an "easy" answer.
