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[Chargerville]

Don’t be afraid, Cat. Lots of FA contracts also work out great all over the league - Eagles just won the SB with key FAs. KC is filling roster holes every year with FAs. Even our roommates the Rams are filling holes with FAs.

your pain is causing selective memory bias.

I agree, but I think he’s talking about the Chargers and their free agent signing track record over the years… not the teams who seem to get it right in free agency. Yes it works when you get it right… at this point, we’re gonna have to trust Hortiz & Harbaugh to be smart and get it right. We were solid last year with them at the helm… so I’m gonna sit back and trust that they have a plan.

[Chargerville]

I’’m trying to think of some of our good ones prior to this staff

K Mack, Lorenzo Neal, Donnie Edwards, Steve Foley (one of the most intimidating looking LBs ever) Casey Hayward

And I’m sure I’m missing a ton

[Icebolt]

Why did the Chief's spend so much on Fulton? I really don't get it. He scared me a lot towards the end of the year. I'm glad he's gone.
Hope this means that the Chief's are on the downside of things

[Budsman]

I've been posting for weeks for folks to prepare themselves for a slow paced free agent approach...people ridiculed me talking about how dumb that would be with all the available cap space etc...I told you guys that last year was not an aberration, this is how Hortiz will be doing business, cap space notwithstanding, and the systems works, last year we saw that even in years where the team has less money to spend the "Ozzie ******* Raven approach" can still yield really good results, make the cap money work for you by rolling it over and over on 1 year deals while you wait until your guys come of age and then you can use the cap money to extend your own guys...

Yeah some fans just don’t understand that this is what we signed up for when we got Harbaugh. Harbaugh isn’t going to want to get every big name guy out there to boost fans egos. He is going to partner with Hortiz and build the team the smart and consistent way. Hortiz comes from the Ravens and knows the Harbaugh way of doing things. Jim and John may be different on the outside but they’re still brothers and learn a lot from each other. I’m quite excited for what this team is going to look like. I suspect the overall talent level will rise along with the depth. It may not be the most star studded team but it will be consistent and deep which is of course the Harbaugh way.

[jamrock]

stone smartt a free agent.

[OG619FrightninLightnin]

stone smartt a free agent.

"Fan favorite" might be a bit of a stretch...

[21&500]

That's a weird move imo.
cost would be almost nothing in an offseason with very few TEs available.
No biggie I suppose but I wouldn't have guessed

[Lone Bolt]

stone smartt a free agent.

Kinda surprised by that...lol...I really have no clue whats going on. Looks like a whole lotta new faces on this years squad Im guessing.

[AKFlyFisher]

I am asking this as a legitimate question: it seems like the Ravens -- and now the Chargers -- take a Moneyball approach to constructing rosters. Am I wrong in that assumption? It seems Hortiz waits for the market to dry and for high dollar dealers to be made, checks where the market inequalities lie, and obtains talent from those inequalities; recognizing it takes 22 players to win. For example, Poona Ford seems like he fits that narrative. Dobbins as well. Then the draft is where he takes players with high talent that fills the spots that the market currently overvalues with inflated contracts. For example, look at what just adequate free agent OLs are getting right now. Taking Alt at 5 makes a lot of sense from a market standpoint. He has to hit on those draft picks, but it would seem that every draft -- until the market changes -- will focus on OL, WR, and DT/DE because those are where the markets are the hardest during FA.

[Lone Bolt]

Give the head coach a B+ grade? He cleans house! Lol

[electricgold]

Stone Smart becoming a FA could be a precursor to Mark Andrews or Evans being signed!

[Eurobolt]

Stone Smart becoming a FA could be a precursor to Mark Andrews or Evans being signed!

We may only hope.