MatthewT

I know a great many will disagree with me on this, but I think there is a pretty good chance Jameis may have ended his NFL playing career with that decision. No it wasn't all him, but he was the guy under center who went against his coaches orders. His market over the past few years has been very soft, I just don't believe a team is going to be in a rush to sign a backup QB who may or may not listen to his head coach moving forward.

As for Dennis Allen not having the respect of his players, that is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. I am not sure if he is dealing with an entire team of this, or a few ring leaders. I suspect since the team continued to play hard the entire year that it's likely a small handful that needs to be dealt with. If nothing is done either way, DA fired or negative players removed from the team, then yes it will get much worse moving forward.

BakoSaint

Jameis is beloved and even if he ends his NFL playing career, he will be much more successful than DA as an announcer or coach. It seems like Jameis was a more effective motivator for the team to stay positive and win than DA was, so the team could also spiral without him. Jameis put teammates first while DA is a me first guy who nobody respects or ever will respect.

Jameis just did a restructure to help the team. If the team retaliates and backs out on agreements behind that restructure, other players may not agree to any creative restructures.

The negative players can't be removed from the team because the team would violate the salary cap and face unprecedented penalties when their dead cap hits. McCoy, Ruiz, Johnson, Jordan, Kamara, etc have all publicly supported this team decision. The team could not cut them all and stay under the cap. The most they could do I guess is pay many of them for the 2024 season while keeping them inactive for every game, but man, we would go 0-17 and have locker room civil war.

DA and Loomis have painted themselves into a corner with this. They are like the law, if the jail was already booked at its absolute legal limit for the next year, and they could not send anyone to jail. When you max the cap you can't cut veterans.