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Originally Posted by RunKC
I would be shocked if Veach traded a 1st for any player and paid him top end money.
You're not doing that anymore while paying Patrick his due
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He learned some lessons early on.
Frank Clark was a pretty obvious one. Sammy Watkins was another. Anthony Hitchens was likely another.
Now an argument is that he didn't have a choice - he had a QB on a rookie deal with an open championship window so he had to grab it. But give that opportunity to him again and I think the Hitchens deal is replaced by a Tranquil sort of move for a solid veteran on a short-term deal.
Watkins might have been replaced by a mid-tier veteran like an MVS sort of player rather than paying top of he market for a #2 ceiling. Mathieu might have been the same animal; a Reid kind of good player who gets paid like a good player instead of re-setting the market. As for Clark - I think you get, at most, a Brown sort of return; he's not giving up a 1st and a 2nd for a pending FA.
He's gotten a LOT more measured in how he approaches his roster building.
As I said way back when - you race the track; not the drivers. Worry about building your team - not anyone else's. And by and large he's been content doing that.
I think it will continue to pay dividends even when it makes some short-term headaches like we're experiencing at the moment.