Ideal? Okay. This is ignoring the recent coach and GM extensions.
Clean house in front office and coaches. I’m okay with letting Waldron stay another year, I think he’s being shackled to Pete ball because I see minimal differences between this and Schotty last year. I don’t think we can properly evaluate him yet. KNJ and Pete gotta dip
Bring new GM with entirely new scouting department that picks new head coach. They need to be in lockstep and not having the whole “Pete actually is in charge of personnel” bullshit. Current dynamic seems like the power is tilted too far away from where it should be.
Trade Wagner. Making too much, getting old, a team looking to make a run while overpay for him. Adams moves to LB. DIggs is a must re-sign. A top tier DE and CB NEEDS to be acquired either in free agency or through a trade. CB I would be more interested in, but I can’t think of particular names off the top of my head.
OL needs some serious love. Particularly run blocking. Carson is most likely done due to his injury. Keep what we got, including Penny. Not interested in a big name RB signing, just need to create holes for the guys we got. We absolutely need a shifty, quick acceleration back that can catch though. Maybe somebody like Singletary or one of the Niners? Idk.
Trade DK. Dude is a distraction and not worth the hassle. Wouldn’t mind Duane Brown getting his walking papers either. I think he’s another disgruntled player.
As for Russ, deal NEEDS to be reworked. The cap hit is just destroying any chance at roster depth. If he won’t, he needs to be traded. I want Russ to be part of our future, but if he’s not willing to budge here, we are being hamstrung and our rebuild becomes even harder. He wants to win with Seattle? You need to give the front office room to work to get pieces around you.
Final thing would be a good middle of the field, slant running wide receiver. Think like MT. I get Russ wants to throw bombs but we gotta stay on the field longer. Move the chains consistently.
I want a more spread like offense, focused on the short to middle throws that gets the opposing defense spread out, and some horizontal running schemes. No more power sets, where we just throw the RB at the OL gaps with 2 TE blocking.
That’s about it. I know I’m not using a lot of names as far as new blood goes, because honestly I haven’t paid enough attention to the rest of the league this year, with the Hawks being so terrible, lost a lot of interest.