Ownership decided that winning is too expensive...

I wasn't meaning to imply that you were.

Overpaying would've been just fine in the short-term. But down the road is where it can come back to bite you. I think, regardless of what they might say publicly, behind closed doors this FO and staff knew this was going to be a tough transition year and we have a lot of work to do. Paying Verner CB1 money just to upgrade the CB2 position when we most likely weren't going to be able to go the distance this season anyway just doesn't make much sense.

I think the hope was that BWW and Sensabaugh would take their lumps this year and hopefully by the time 2015 rolls around one of them is good enough to actually earn that CB2 spot, rather than just getting it by default. But if we don't see some marked improvement down the stretch I fully expect we'll see a CB selected in either the 1st or 2nd round in next year's draft.

I agree we've been pretty abysmal with our drafting. But I don't think drastically overpaying necessarily solves anything. We're still a really bad team right now even with Verner.

We have GOT to scout and draft better, plain and simple. Teams that draft poorly don't win championships regardless of how much money they spend.

 

I don't know, I was one of the biggest ATV supporters here but he seemed to get burned quite a bit last Thursday. He's a great corner, I liked him more than McCourty, but if the coaches don't think he fits the scheme than it is what it is.

I also like BWW, but he had a bad game yesterday. The play that sticks out was the flag for PI in the endzone. He doesn't even look for the ball, breaks the pass up and taunts AJ. AJ just looks at him and motions a flag being thrown. BWW looked like an idiot IMO.

 

Tommie Smith has stated several times he is willing to spend as much money as possible on players, staff and overall in general just to make the game more enjoyable for the fans.

I liked Verner, wish we still had him but he walked.

Team has obviously been spending money bringing in players they feel can win with us, regardless of how trash they're playing right now.

 

Wow, I'm not going to explain to you how NFL teams make their revenue or why teams franchise value is what it is. You are just butthurt and want to act like ownership doesn't care about the team winning. Pretty sure they've spent plenty on free agents and re-signings and we are about middle of the league in salary spent. So none of the facts or logic back up your point of view, but think whatever dumb **** you want.

 

Never underestimate the ego of multi-millionaires and billionaires. I'm confident every single owner absolutely cares about winning. Whether they are wise enough to make the right moves in order for that to happen is a different matter entirely.

The NFL ownership group is the elitist of elite. I doubt any of them like being "the loser" or "the laughing stock". No, they want to show these other guys up and prove that they're the smartest/best/etc.

Besides, I don't think anyone gets into team ownership to sit back and count the dollars. These guys have more money than they know what to do with before they ever get their hands on a team. It's a status and pride thing. And some of them, like Jerry, just want to "play".

 

I don't really agree with the thinking that because he's performing bad in Tampa that he would've performed badly here.