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Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe
Mike McGlinchey: former top-10 pick, has been a solid starter for five years at RT, put up a 71 PFF grade in his contract year and gets a deal that will pay him an average of $17.5M per. This player will be staying at RT on his new team.
Jawaan Taylor: former 2nd-round pick, has been an underachieving starter for four years at RT, put up a 58 PFF grade in his contract year and gets a deal that will pay him an average of $20M per. This player will be switching positions on his new team.
Guess which player ChiefsPlanet feels is overpaid  |
Guess which team hasn’t lost to Denver since the Manning days. Guess which team has been to 3 of the last 4 Super Bowls, hoisting 2 Lombardi’s. Guess which team and O-Line have a recent track record of developing O-Lineman and making them either better (Creed, Trey, etc.) or outperform their limitations (Brown, Wylie, etc.)?
You site PFF grade, but you fail to mention the difference between run blocking and pass blocking. The Chiefs didn’t want a run blocking LT, they want a pass blocking one. And while Taylor is a below average run blocker, he has been a very good pass blocker on the right side. I don’t have any doubts about the Chiefs offensive staff’s ability to convert him to the left side as a good PASS blocker. That’s what they wanted. Paying a good pass blocking LT $20 mil. per year is not unreasonable. Paying a RT $17.5 is above the market. One team will get value out of their money. One team will not.
Based on recent track records, care to wager which one that will be?