[Cactus Jack]

Safe to say that all the chips have been pushed in on their QB experiment with JJ McCarthy and Sam Darnold. No excuses for sustained failure with Jefferson and Addison. They should be in a position to know if they want to build further or tear it all down pretty quickly.

Cap hit really hurts in the third and fourth seasons, but they'd still have McCarthy's numbers under control then and seem to be in good cap space otherwise. I'm also wondering how creative they could get in restructuring his deal if needed.

From a strategic standpoint, it's an already competitive division with Detroit and Green Bay, but we don't know that Jordan Love takes the next step or that a Lions team without lots of stars didn't catch lightning in a bottle. Chicago may be good in time... or just remain terrible. Can see why you think you could contend or at least wouldn't want to risk being the worst in your division.

From a fan satisfaction point of view, it'd be tough to go through a Randy Moss scenario again. They'd floated his name on the market around the draft. I don't know how serious they were, but the return they were looking for must not have been there.