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Originally Posted by dlphg9
Anyone that uses past players getting injured as a reason to not sign a 25 year old stud is just ****ing reeruned. I dont give a **** if Justin Houston didn't work out and got hurt, that has absolutely no effect on Chris Jones. If youre gonna use Eric Berry as a reason to not sign him long, then you are just a complete reerun, because Jones doesnt have the injury history of Berry, Jones is alot younger than Berry was when Berry got paid, and Jones didnt just come back from cancer.
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Using players getting injured on huge contracts in our teams recent history AS A REASON NOT TO BREAK THE BANK FOR ONE PLAYER is not reeruned.
Its simply a " Hey, remember when we gave Berry all that money? That was awesome".
We are still eating millions of dollars of that contract.
Houston was a gigantic waste of 105 million.
The point is, you think you have a player in Jones, that we just cannot live without, and must drop a mega deal in his lap.
I'm saying the only player that way of thinking applies to, is Mahomes. Losing Mahomes would irreversibly cripple the franchise for years.
Losing Jones would be a minor annoyance, given the massive haul we would get in return.
I'd view Jones leaving as similar to losing Kareem Hunt's production. Yeah dude produced, was top 3 in his position in the league, and was awesome, but hes not here now so plug n play.
Is Damien Kareem Hunt? No. But the dude balled out in his stead. Veach and Spags could do the same replacing Jones. Not the same caliber, but not a scrub either, and we save a shit ton of cap doing it and retain or sign more players to keep this thing going for the next decade along with the draft picks we will land.
Whatever Veach decides, im good with. He stays, we have a monster DT locked up and hopefully stays injury free.
He offloads him for a haul, hey, gonna be exciting to see what Veach with the roster with his acquired resources.
If i had to lean one way or the other, I take the big haul in a trade. Never was a fan of a huge amount of your cap riding on one player, then riding on the pine in the case of injury.