Tom Brady? Vita Vea? Suh? Piere-Paul? LaVonte David? I think their defensive front had more to do with the SB win than Byron Leftwich, but ok. (and the fact the Chiefs were down on the OL)
Is this all that bad though assuming they fire Pace and Nagy after this year? "Punting on the season" also means giving a new GM in 2022 his choice of coach, and QB, along with what is likely going to be a 20-30M bump in cap space. The aging defense is basically just Mack and Hicks as the other older guys are net negatives who frankly will be cut when their dead money drops to manageable amounts like Quinn and Trevathan.
But if the plan is to punt, why waste money and picks on a dead man walking regime?
Ultimately I imagine its because the ownership group lacks competency and strategic direction. But hypothetically it could be a mix of not wanting to eat all of the garuanteed salary dollars left on GM and coaches contracts and also that the job may be more appealing in '22 and perhaps would attract better candidates. I don't know how much money is being wasted on the current regime as most of the contracts they signed are 1 year deals for fairly minor money - perhaps all of them if you dont include Dalton and the Kicker.
You were probably blowing your wad when Nagy was hired.
