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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
How confident are you that Karlaftis is an immediate 10+ sack guy and Uzi 6-8.
Because without those 15 sacks and more critically, without the pressures and the double-teams, this DL is in trouble.
Y'all really don't remember how many games were nip/tuck right until the 4th quarter last year? Again, we don't beat Cincy without him. We don't beat Philly without him.
How's that not 'a game changer' if we don't have him?
This isn't just some swinging dick linebacker. This was probably the 3rd most impactful defensive player in football last season. He was THAT ****ing good.
It's really REALLY weird to me that folks are going to hand-waive that. Because as 'only one piece of the puzzle' but playing at an insanely high level, this defense was still only okay most of the season in 2022. Take him out of that equation and 'only okay' may be a pleasant memory.
Take him out and you're back to trying to outscore teams and hoping they make a mistake or you win a coin toss. That didn't work in '18 and wouldn't have worked even in '19 had the AFC not been a bucket of dicks that year.
We need the D to complement the O and Jones is the most critical component we have to that.
So I'm not gonna pretend like he doesn't matter. He does - in a big way.
But he's evidently lost his mind.
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Let's be honest here. His magnus opus was against backup OL in the Championship game. Every other game he hasn't registered a sack. He was invisible in the SB and yet we still won.
Take out his game against backups and ask yourself if that is worth $30 million a year with the strong chance he declines during the contract with us paying dead money like we are currently with Frank Clark?
It's not worth it. History has proven it. Get him back this year, make a run and then tag and trade in late February/early March before FA starts.