Fire:
Cable
Richard
Consider Bevell if there's an excellent option available.
Hire:
New Oline coach
Gus Bradley
Gus isn't any better schematically than Richard, but he's older and I believe he has the respect of the players. Can you imagine Sherman ever yelling at Gus? Hell no.
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Regarding new Oline coach. I actually believe Tom Cable is an excellent teacher. The problem is they give him authority over personnel decisions related to the line. I believe the club needs to start drafting who the talent evaluators believe are the best, and not an Oline coach. Because I don't believe you can take away that from him at this point, I think he's got to go. Pitt and NE both had Oline issues in the past and a change of coach has now brought that back into a position of strength.
Graham- Sign to extension (He may not produce how you want but I see this as a factor of play design and Russ with time). I think if you give him a legit Oline, you'll see endless offense with jimmy being a big part of it. Jimmy is still younger and a great team player. He's a guy I want on my team.
Kam- Sign to short term extension if possible, if not you must trade him. He's the emotional leader.
Sherman- Trade. As much as I love Sherman and I believe that he's elite. We saw that he's only an above average CB without Earl and/or a pass rush. He's paid as a pure cover corner and he plays one side of the field with help over the top. Get a 1st round pick for him, draft a guy like Marcus peters ect.. Cheaper cap hit, younger,and probably wouldn't much of a down grade.
Sign an elite edge rusher. I prioritise this even greater than oline. The most important part of this off season. For some reason Marsh, Clark, Avril, and Bennett were not good enough. I don't have any idea what happened to them, but that was our edge. Was Dan Quinn that excellent at teaching our Dline that they forgot it when he was gone? I doubt it, but I think they need 4 excellent rushers, not just 3. Clark was a beast.
Avril needs to stop playing on base downs. Bring him back in circa 2013 on passing downs. We had 4 big DLINE for rushing downs (1st and 10), and had Clem, Avril, Bennett, and Clinton McD who cleaned up with just a straight 4 man rush. So sign an elite pass rusher, even if they are older and one trick pony- that's fine, but you need someone who can still get off the edge with speed.
We are fine at the skilled positions WR/TE/RB.
I'd draft a few RBs in the later rounds but Prosise and Rawls are a very nice future tandem. Let Richardson play out his contract this year as a security to Lockett.
Resign:
McDaniel
Reece
McCray
Morgan
Let the rest go including Hauschka.
With Sherman Cap hit off the books, it opens up for them to sign someone like JPP, Perry, Sheard..ect As well as the $35MM they have left to sign two above average lineman. Our pass rush and safeties made our CBs, not the other way around.