WFT's Off-Season Thread

[FrenchSkin]

Just wanted to throw this out there: more than half the league spends 30M+ on Dline, and 7 teams 40M+... so would it be that crazy to think we could retain Allen AND Payne ? (Assuming we'd be ready to let Scherff go and not make a splashy signing at QB, which both seem quite likely right now).

[GridIron26]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Just wanted to throw this out there: more than half the league spends 30M+ on Dline, and 7 teams 40M+... so would it be that crazy to think we could retain Allen AND Payne ? (Assuming we'd be ready to let Scherff go and not make a splashy signing at QB, which both seem quite likely right now).

I think we could make it work, especially if we draft a rookie QB that will become a starter.

[Scalper]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Just wanted to throw this out there: more than half the league spends 30M+ on Dline, and 7 teams 40M+... so would it be that crazy to think we could retain Allen AND Payne ? (Assuming we'd be ready to let Scherff go and not make a splashy signing at QB, which both seem quite likely right now).

You could make it work, but the question is would you want to? If you are going to, probably aren't signing a big name WR either. Percent of cap is the meaningful metric, not absolute dollar amount, percent of cap is by definition always inflation adjusted. If we resign Allen this year for $15M, Payne next year for $15M, Sweat year after for $20M, Young year after for $25M, in 2024 that is $75M on DL. Even if we were super optimistic and said cap would be $225M by then, a $45M increase or a 25% increase, then we have a third of our cap allocated to DL not including 4 other DL. There are 6 main position groups, and QB usually consumes more once you resign one, but roughly 16.7% percent for QBs; OL; WRs, RBs, TEs; DL; LBs, CBs/Ss. And lumping WR, RB, TE together is being generous. It would put a lot of strain on rest of team, but you could do it if you had a serious long term plan and rolled lots of money over year to year. Basically, our DL would take the salary of an entire other position group.

As I wrote in a previous post, I prefer keeping both edge rushers and Payne, simply because edge rushers the high leverage position and Payne to me is more talented than Allen. The ideal scenario would be to trade him for a 2nd plus a later pick, but doubt we can.

I would absolutely take Allen over Scherff simply because he is younger and healthier and RG is lowest leverage position on entire team, but even that may not make it viable. I'd rather have two devastating edge rushers, Payne, and plug Io, Settle, or some other similar player in at other DT. You could find someone serviceable but not as good as Allen in 3rd or 4th round or older guy with some gas left on cheap contract.