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Originally Posted by dlphg9
Look at a list of the best D tackles to ever play. There's something all of those guys have in common and that is they played either there whole careers with the same team or at most 2 teams. Between these guys who are arguably the best 10 DTs of all time only 3 of them played on more than 1 team.
Casey Hampton - 1 team
Buck Buchanan - 1
Warren Sapp - 2 (Played on 2nd team during his decline. Was 32 years old when he went to 2nd team. Worst years of his career)
Randy White - 1
Cortez Kennedy - 1
John Randle - 2 (went to 2nd team when he was 34)
Bob Lily - 1
Merlin Olsen - 1
Mean Joe Greene - 1
Alan Page - 2 (went to 2nd team at 33 years old)
Teams just don't let their stud D tackles go. When are all pro talent d tackles ever available for trade or in FA? Its just a position that is filled with so many busts that when you get one like Chris Jones you don't let him leave before he's even hit his prime, especially if the only reason you can come up with is that he might get hurt.
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The level of fail here is ****ing spectacular.
There was no ****ing Salary Cap until 1994.
Are you even ****ing aware of when Free agency where players had any ****ing unrestricted decisionmaking about where they played became an actual thing? When teams no longer had to not only get the team to give up right of refusal, but settle on draft compensation for the right to sign them?
1993.
Pease, tell me the story about how the Chiefs were able to keep Buck Buchanan from going elsewhere, by paying him a huge deal knowing they just couldnt let him entertain offers, while taking care of their "cap space". Lol. Jesus.
Half of these men you listed never even had an option to leave. The only way out was through trade. If the player was good, youd never trade them, and they played for peanuts. If they sucked, nobody was gonna give you shit for them in trade. LMMFAO. They were basicly indentured servants. You want to play, you play here. Or you retire.