[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: one of those typical days...

If you have any experience with being a general manager for a football team, you'll be familiar with the feeling that you wake up, look at the news about which players did or didn't sign with your team and you'll find out that most of the players that you thought you offered a fine contract, you got outbid and the player signed elsewhere. We lost out on WR Don McClung, C Tevin Bratsch and RB Liam Diaz today. The consolation prize of the day was returning our sack leader from last season DE Warren Mendelssohn.

The biggest loss there was missing out on Liam Diaz, as he would have been a fine short-term stop gap for the loss of the Lost Cause to the Paris Musketeers. Bratsch returned to Bordeaux, only to find out a certain Robbie Zinn also got hired by them and he found himself on the trade block hours after signing a new one-year deal. Yeah, such can be the life in the IHOF too foor a player. McClung also signed with Bordeaux. He would have been only the WR4 for us, so basically a luxury, but I figured we've got some cap space to throw around, so why not?

The roster is up to 47 players now, including the 3 incoming rookies, excluding the 5 yet to be made draft picks (which would add up to 52 already). Point of attention still remaining:
* QB Winfred England, if the opportunity arises that a trade would be satisfactory within the IHOF's competitiveness (anti-tanking) rules, we'll work out a deal with the Augusta Greenjackets
* the RB situation, we're very thin with just second year pro's RB/ST Van Goodwin and RB/PR Rondell Robertson, neither had a carry for us last season
* the tight end situation, we're mostly looking for a mentor to help develop TE Garrett Alcala and TE/ST Darnell McKie
* a WR4, because you never know when you need one, we're going to try to re-sign WR/ST Calvin Hancock
* the O-line, we need a backup center and offensive tackle, even after re-signing promising LT Carson McCormick, because we have just 5 guys signed
* the secondary, we have 7 guys signed, ideally we'll add up to 9 or 10, at the very least for the pre-season
* long snapper, because we're going to require one