 Now let's talk about the losers of free agency so far and this one hurts because if you guys are watching the video podcast up on youtube and you guys are seeing the shirt that i'm wearing right now as a falcons fan i hate to say it man this free agency period sucks and you know what i said last year this free agency period sucks and you know what i said the year before that and the year before that and the year before that ever since 2013 i can go back and say the falcons bring in or don't bring in a lot of free agents i don't know if that's their philosophy i have no idea but they don't bring in a lot of free agents just because of the lack of cap space that they spend and put towards more players like matt ryan or julio jones that they just year after year don't have enough money to spend in signing big names or they bring in players if they have the money that a lot of people would think oh that's a big name they should do well for the atlanta falcons and then they suck 2013 we needed a running back besides steven jackson for the rams ended up not doing much i want to speak about a running back let's talk about last year todd girly yeah goal line back had a decent amount of touchdowns if you look at his stats but man his knees his knees are it's a it's a real thing he's really lost a step so uh they bring in all these free agents that really don't do that well don't say fowler as well last year i like fowler i think he's a good player but i don't think he really did much that last year and even the players that they draft as well for the long run don't really end up doing much year after year it's just a failed defensive lineman after defensive lineman with vic beasley and uh to carris mckinley and now this period we're seeing that we don't have enough money to really even bring in a disappointing free agent at this point now they restructured the contract of matt ryan and don't say fowler as well freed up some money which is good but what that tells us at this point is that you are having matt ryan be the franchise quarterback for the time being and you don't really expect to make a move for a top quarterback prospect in the nfl draft or at least what it tells us is you save money for matt ryan's contract you don't want to trade back for the fourth overall pick you could but you're saving money and not signing any free agents this year so far because you want to save that money for that high draft pick because it matters as far as the contract and the money that you pay for the draft pick based off of the position that they were drafted so you want to save that money for that fourth overall pick who that fourth overall pick is i have no idea my thoughts at this point after restructuring the contract of matt ryan i don't believe it's going to be a quarterback i believe it's going to be someone else but we don't have money so we can't do anything the best thing that we did was uh we just signed eric harris the raider's safety and we resigned jane and graham a backup titan oh let's bring in a third string titan as well with lee smith let's trade for him let's trade a seventh round pick you know it there's not a lot of moves that the falcons are doing and it just happens year after year and i kind of compare to the new york saints the division rival who was dead last in cap space minus 60 million dollars that they had to spend this season the falcons had 10 times more than that minus six million dollars and the saints have still still made better moves in free agency than the falcons once rubies retired they restructured the contract at tason hill made that four years voidable if they wanted to and they resigned their quarterback of the future james winston for one year 12 million dollar contract that's still much better than what the falcons have done i mean if you want to make any moves the falcons marlin mac a running back a 24 year old good player who could be a running back one you're starting running back for years to come signed a one year two million dollar contract with the colts two million so if you wanted to save money you could have still gotten marlin mac for two million dollars now i don't know if he took a pay cut mac did to stay with colts maybe the falcons or have already reached out to mac and he declined maybe he was just asking for eight million nine million i have no idea but the fact that you sign mac to a two year or two million dollar contract the colts did tells me that the falcons could have made a push for him to be the starting running back of their franchise falcons i would say is one of the biggest losers in free agency so far