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Originally Posted by RunKC
Trading Hill isn’t the same as trading Jones.
With Hill gone, we still had Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and Travis Kelce. Those 3 were critical in keeping the offense rolling. We additionally had Hardman to help with some of the same things due to pure speed.
We have nothing on the DL outside of a young improving Karlaftis. Nothing else.
We all saw how pathetic the pass rush was without Chris last Sunday. Gonna look a lot like that every week with him gone
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In a way, you're making my exact point for me.
We've got Jones and nothing else. If we have to pay him $30m per, and will be picking around #30 for the forseeable future, we will have neither cash, nor high enough draft picks to EVER have any true playmakers around him. You're not getting a difference maker at EDGE at the bottom of the first.
So one STAR and JAGS is the deal, then. Because that's what we'll have access to.
OR- what if someone else wants to pay that $30m and will trade, like, a mid first and a third for the opportunity to put a star on their defensive line?
Well, we could sign TWO plus DE's (or one and an OT maybe?) AND draft a guy half the first round higher than we would otherwise have access to.
I have no idea if such a deal exists out there, I really don't. But I think if it does, you have to seriously consider it.
Two and perhaps three plus players on the line, or just one-who can be double-teamed while his line-mates all get stoned one on one.
And the problem with your scenario of having nothing if we let Jones go is that the whole POINT would be to re-stock with multiple plus players. If they trade Jones and do nothing, then yeah, bad idea and we'll suck on defense. But that's not why you would ever trade Jones.
You'd trade him to improve with the freed up cap room and draft resources.