Few GMs are doing free agency better than Falcons’ Terry Fontenot
March 9, 2024
Few GMs are doing free agency better than Falcons’ Terry Fontenot
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Free agency hasn’t started but we’re the best?
Eh. I really wouldn’t credit him much with the Campbell and Dupree signings: 6.5 sacks out of full-time DEs isn’t particularly impressive. They also looked cooked during a lot of the year. Ellis’ sack total also fell off a cliff. Smith’s production is less impressive when you consider his salary.
The drafts have been fairly unproductive. Part of this was the stupidity of flipping to a 3-4 for Peas and the back again, but their 2nds, 3rds, and 4ths have done nothing, and Pitts, London, and Bijan are all questionable picks as high as they went.
Maybe this compares well to the rest of the leagues choices, but it isn’t transforming the team into a winner yet, and the schedule the last two years has been a complete cupcake.
Man the NFC South being absolute garbage first had us almost keeping Smith again and now has people writing like Fontenot did something.
Arthur Smith has essentially been scapegoated for all the problems despite the glaring miss on QB(Ridder with no true QB comp/Heinicke making more than Baker).
While Jessie Bates had a hell of a year, Fontenot may have gotten into the safety market a year early. With this wave of releases safeties may become the new RBs where teams just don’t pay them.
Fontenot has been given a mulligan for his first three years. Anyone could have gotten the team out of cap hell by not spending anything and likely finish a few games under .500 in this terrible division.
He really needs to nail this off season starting with QB.
3 comments
Free agency hasn’t started but we’re the best?
Eh. I really wouldn’t credit him much with the Campbell and Dupree signings: 6.5 sacks out of full-time DEs isn’t particularly impressive. They also looked cooked during a lot of the year. Ellis’ sack total also fell off a cliff. Smith’s production is less impressive when you consider his salary.
The drafts have been fairly unproductive. Part of this was the stupidity of flipping to a 3-4 for Peas and the back again, but their 2nds, 3rds, and 4ths have done nothing, and Pitts, London, and Bijan are all questionable picks as high as they went.
Maybe this compares well to the rest of the leagues choices, but it isn’t transforming the team into a winner yet, and the schedule the last two years has been a complete cupcake.
Man the NFC South being absolute garbage first had us almost keeping Smith again and now has people writing like Fontenot did something.
Arthur Smith has essentially been scapegoated for all the problems despite the glaring miss on QB(Ridder with no true QB comp/Heinicke making more than Baker).
While Jessie Bates had a hell of a year, Fontenot may have gotten into the safety market a year early. With this wave of releases safeties may become the new RBs where teams just don’t pay them.
Fontenot has been given a mulligan for his first three years. Anyone could have gotten the team out of cap hell by not spending anything and likely finish a few games under .500 in this terrible division.
He really needs to nail this off season starting with QB.