Edwards/Spencer are gone, if we sign them?? you mean, if we don’t?

Even though the plan is going back to base 4-3 most of the time, I’d imagine we’d still keep at least one of Spencer Johnson / Dwan Edwards as a rotational DT.

I figured for cap purposes we’d cut one of them since we don’t have a big need for depth that deep when they are aging and their better days are behind them – thus they don’t have the potential to get better and be bigger contributors like Kellen Heard might.

What I was trying to say is, if we signed Seymour we’d end up getting rid of not one of them, but rather both. If we signed Seymour to a 6 mil / yr average contract he’d cost just as much as keeping both Johnson and Edwards (I believe Rotoworld’s contract info said they both made around 3-3.5mil each for next year), but would be a much better contributor IMO. Even at age 32 he managed to get 6 sacks last year, and it seemed like he was still playing at a good level last year, though it is possible he falls off a cliff production wise, or he keeps playing til he’s 38 like Pat Williams.

Basically, my “too long; didn’t read” is that though DT isn’t a need, if the opportunity presented itself to better our 3 rotation depth by having Dareus-Williams-Seymour we could do that by cutting Edwards/Johnson while being par for course in terms of spending money. We could do that and increase the production of our D-line by keeping those three fresh throughout a single game or season. If Troup turned out to be starter worthy we’d have 4 good DTs that we could keep very fresh and wear down O-Lines quickly, and would have Giant style depth at DT rather than DE.