Absolutely Stunned.

[Daseal]

I can't believe we let every single one of our decent UFA's escape. Smoot and Pierce were important pieces to our puzzle. I feel Pierce is a lot more replaceable than Smoot, but they were both very good players. Everyone on thewarpath, like always, preached stability. We all thought someone with a level head would be able to keep the spending to a minimum.

Then the Coles situation popped up. I was a bit suprised, but then after stepping back and thinking about it his moves kinda make sense. I was never for a trade of Coles no matter what, but what's ridiculous is us removing our 10.5M signing bonus from the table when Smoot went to the Vikings and trying to lowball him. Sorry, he's worth at least 11M in my mind. Especially when we're going to spend a long season seeing Harris get beat like a rented horse.

I am really starting to feel Gibbs should NOT be President of this team. There's a reason he won in strike years/with great talent scouts by his side. These moves are absolutely miserable. Add 6 Million dollars to Moss's current salary and tell me he's worth that! I don't think any sane person will tell you he is. Not to mention he's going to want his payday next year and chances are he'll walk which means we traded Coles for a one year WR.

Losing Smoot really chaps my ass because it's not like the Vikings gave him an offer that blew him out of the water, we pulled back our offer (which was fair, and would have been worth going into a bidding war with MN with up to 11 - 11.5 M.) Instead we decide to pull back our offer and try to lowball him. I have a feeling this is all Gibbs since Snyder isn't exactly known for lowballing. Especially a fan favorite and team leader in Smoot.

I didn't want anything this offseason, but more importantly I didn't want to lose anything. We got an F in both categories.