Thread: Wade Phillips is Smiling

Originally Posted by Rick

Barrett will be gone next year. he has enough potential that some other team will sign him to a decent deal and we won't match.

But just think of the cap space we will save!

this is essentially why I wanted to hire Phillips in the first place. The guy is such a good defensive coordinator that for a long period of time every 5 years or so people would forget what a bad head coach he was. And the other thing is when you have an older very very good defensive coordinator especially one who's failed as a head coach you don't have to worry about him getting snapped up by another team as a head coach. This obsession with hiring young coordinators who work with the team for two years and then leave really messes with continuity. Woods has done a decent job but definitely not a Wade Phillips job.

Originally Posted by Rick

Barrett will be gone next year. he has enough potential that some other team will sign him to a decent deal and we won't match.

2 sacks in 7 games as a starter.

Originally Posted by Cugel

I'd say that non-signing is working out for the Broncos. They are in a total rebuilding mode with young, low priced players who can grow with the rookie QB they will be drafting in the top 10.

Campbell cost $15M a year. There's no point hiring elite defensive players to "win now" when you don't have a Franchise QB and your offense is pure garbage. What's he going to do for you? Win a couple more games and get you a worse draft pick? They aren't competing for any SBs with this offensive roster.

They need to rebuild through the draft before they can add a few missing pieces through FA.

No, they weren’t in rebuild mode when Elway low-balled Campbell, if they were why even offer him a contract?

Also, they can’t build only through the draft on the count of the fact that they blow so many draft picks.

Originally Posted by Cugel

I'd say that non-signing is working out for the Broncos. They are in a total rebuilding mode with young, low priced players who can grow with the rookie QB they will be drafting in the top 10.

Campbell cost $15M a year. There's no point hiring elite defensive players to "win now" when you don't have a Franchise QB and your offense is pure garbage. What's he going to do for you? Win a couple more games and get you a worse draft pick? They aren't competing for any SBs with this offensive roster.

They need to rebuild through the draft before they can add a few missing pieces through FA.

Btw, this logic is how we get “Trade Von Miller” takes.

Wade Phillips aint smiling today....