Quote Originally Posted by 86WARD View Post
Are you really throwing away the future though just because you don’t have a first round pick? In the age of free agency and a good scouting team, you can still be competitive without a first round pick or two. It’s just a bit harder and gives you a lot less room for misses and cap errors...a lot less.
Unfortunately, they already have a huge miss / cap error with the Gurley contract - almost unbelievable how quickly that blew up in their faces. Ramsey is going to want $20M or damn close, Goff will get well north of $20M.

They are going to have to get really lucky in the middle rounds of the draft the next 2-3 years, without missing ANY of their higher picks, or they are screwed.