Gus Bradley soon will make Las Vegas his year-round home as a result of being hired by the Raiders to be their defensive coordinator. When he exits the plane, he’s likely to be followed by his wife and four kids, not Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. That’s important to note, as Bradley is tasked with
Raiders defensive coordinator Gus Bradley intent upon building formidable line
We need to start seeing some salary cap wizardry from the brains trust this off-season. There are big cost, low production players – Collins, Joyner, Brown, Williams, Jackson, Witten to name a few- who need to be cut.
Much as I like Incognito, i think we need to move on and we don’t want to overspend on Agholor – if he is our deep threat, why draft Ruggs?
In terms of player trades, we should trade one of our top two QBs – both have value – and listen to anybody interested in Abram, Ferrell, Lawson or Key. Anything to free up cap space and bring draft picks for the D and a new OT to replace Brown.
We should look to trade down to pick up more picks in lower round 1 and 2/3 to help the defense but that does rely on a huge improvement in our drafting high picks.
Does this sound like another rebuild? Yes – because poor high round drafting and FA pick ups mean we need it once again.
Good luck Gus.