I can maybe see a way to recovery, but it doesn't look pretty.

Go 1-16 this year to secure the number one pick, trade all our picks away to amass 2026-27 draft picks. Tank the 2025-26 season, secure the number one pick again, trade all our picks to amass even more 2026-27 picks. Tank the 2026-27 season to secure the number one pick for a third year in a row, force Haslam to sell the team, fire Berry and the rest of the scouting team, and hire a GM and scouts that can actually put all those picks to use. Draft a superstar surefire QB at one, and then fill the rest of the holes with the glut of picks amassed from the previous years. Trade picks for a superstar here and there if you can. Maybe, just maybe, after all that we go 8-9 (but like 6-2 in the division somehow, in classic AFCN fashion), and we sneak into a wildcard game.

We're still going to be paying Watson a shitload the rest of 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 because of the void year cap nonsense, so we're definitely fucked until then. But maybe, just maybe, in 2027-28 we're finally able to use our freed up cap space to sign some big names to supplement our young team, end up with a winning record, and maybe even a playoff run.