Yeah, the contending in two years was always a bunch of crock. I'm not sure what that initial evaluation process was all about because he certainly misjudged where this roster and team was at.
I do think it'll be more of a gradual process, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. We'll have to wait out some contracts, either retain cap on contracts to make deals or take cap back, possibly buy out players and eat some dead cap for a time. Our prospect pool is currently towards the bottom half of the league, probably the bottom third. We'll see how the draft improves on that. We don't have anyone currently in the system who looks like they'll jump in and be an impact player sooner than later so I have questions about the next wave. This isn't to say we don't have any good prospects though but our more blue chip guys are all wingers.
I hope they don't try and take shortcuts the way Benning did, trading picks out for players who are supposedly ahead in development. I'd rather we just use our picks. I'm hoping we don't pay to dump any more contracts either, moving out picks hurts.
We can't assume everything will work out perfectly either, there will be more misses.