NFL Teams That Are Losing the Offseason

A team cannot win or lose a Super Bowl in the offseason, but they can set themselves up for quite a struggle to get there if they aren’t careful.

The Baltimore Ravens have been hemorrhaging free agents this offseason, mainly on defense and special teams, but their biggest loss has to be starting offensive guard Ben Grubbs.

The Ravens’ hands are tied in free agency thanks to having little cap space and will need to use their draft picks wisely to make up for the components they’ve lost.

Oakland has to deal with the one-two punch of low cap space and having just a handful of draft picks with which to make up for its offseason losses. The team didn’t manage its draft picks well in the past 12 months, which is something it could pay for this season and in years to come.

The Miami Dolphins boast an ideal location (with great weather and no state income tax), but that’s still not enough to lure top free-agent talent to their team.

First, they lost out on getting Jeff Fisher to be their head coach, and then they traded away wide receiver Brandon Marshall to help lure quarterback Peyton Manning.

But Manning didn’t care for Miami anyway, leaving the Dolphins with far more questions than answers about the team this offseason.

The team in the worst offseason shape thus far is the Indianapolis Colts. On the heels of their 2-14 season, they canned a ton of veteran talent and embarked on a wholesale rebuilding process.

That process would have been easier if they traded Peyton Manning rather than release him outright; Manning ultimately received the balance of his Colts deal from the Denver Broncos.

That kind of leverage could have helped the Colts immensely if they would have entertained the possibility of trading him.

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