Something has to be done about those linebackers, I dunno if you read much about the salary cap but they count for 20+ million vs the cap next year. 1 of the 2 basically has to go....they can't keep rolling over cap hits to open money with guys that aren't that great. Woodley has a base of 8m next year, I'd ask for at least half of that back or cut him post June 1. Timmons has a base equally as awful. Those two contracts are so bad that we would lose cap money by outright cutting them at this point, but it's something that has to be considered. Cutting Troy and Ike saves us like 15million vs the cap. Here's the thing, you have an average and slow defense, and you have 4 guys that are done-zo taking up about 40m in 2014 cap room, no wonder we suck so bad.
I believe that Bell will figure out how to run more effectively, cause his YPC numbers are totally awful. His pass catching skills are great for a back, it's been many years since we had a multi-purpose(maybe ever?) back that can catch and run. The Steelers all time record for catches by a RB is only like 51, Bell already has 33. Also, that play on the goal line is just a bad rule. I understand making the ball dead when a helmet comes off so that a guy can't keep running, but he was clearly across the goal line and only technicality of the rule prevented a TD. That specific type of situation should be fixed in the rule book. Can you imagine if some guy was diving for a playoff game winning TD like that and obviously scored mere nano-seconds before his helmet came off? Would be insane.
I go WR early cause I'm planning on gutting the defense and want a 3 WR rotation of Brown, Wheaton, and Stud rookie WR X to use next year. I can see thinking otherwise if you don't plan on doing that. I just see teams like the Bears, or the Packers that just load up on skill position studs and generally have a level of success. say you can get one of Watkins, Evans or Lee, suddenly with Bell and maybe even miller we're loaded at the skill positions and having good talent there is the difference between Atlanta 2012 and Atlanta 2013.
