The Marshall Plan wrote:If keeping Meredith means that we never drafted Miller, even though I have no idea if he'll work out or not, then I'm glad we let Meredith go. Miller's potential is far greater than Meredith's ceiling especially post injury and we have AR15, Gabriel and Burton which more than offset not have Meredith.
Well, yeah, if you throw tons of financial and draft resource at pretty much any position, you can make it better.
However, given that your financial and draft resources are both capped, your goal is to get good value.
Yes, they added more at WR than they lost in Meredith...by spending 23M (plus future guaranteed money, too) & 2 draft picks vs spending 3M.
Being better is not really relevant.
Robinson cost huge money and last put up huge numbers 3 yrs ago
Gabriel got big money without ever being a starter and averaging under 500 yds a season
Burton got big money without ever being a starter and averaging under 300 yds a season the last 2
Miller cost a R2 + R4 with no NFL track record, obviously
Meredith cost no draft pick originally, none to keep, and minor money to have kept him this year (with no future commitment). Then, if he played well, you'd be paying market value for a player who you knew could start and was recovered from injury.
The real questions are:
Were the new acquisitions good value?
Is the receiver group they made without him a better group
and better value than some combination they could have made that included him?
(And that last question should also be asked with Kendall Wright and Dontrelle Inman, both experienced and dirt cheap, in the question, too)
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