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Originally Posted by Easy 6
I'm on that shooting for the middle train
Veteran young or old
Suamataia breathing down his neck
Morris, Driskell, cheap young FA with upside
Throw them all in a blender and see who looks best, then go from there... finding these guys is usually more about patience, persistence, and a little in house luck than anything else
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I think the best combination of outcomes is to go short AND long.
And I think we went long with Kingsley. And could still continue doing the same over the next year or two.
Which means that you can focus on the NOW this off-season. If that means that Stanley comes at a reasonable number, he's STILL only being signed as a 2-3 year option in all probability. Or Armstead. Or hell, if Noteboom ends up being the best you can do.
Because I see no reason to doubt at all that over the next 2 seasons, Stanley and/or Armstead will be the absolute best
player reasonably available to us at that position.
Anybody else is some willingness to trade immediate productivity for long-term benefits. If you're signing Robinson, for instance, you're getting a lesser player for a longer period of time. And perhaps that has some merit.
But it doesn't mean that shooting short-term in FA with a different idea for the long-term is without merit either.
It's silly to just dismiss the possibility out of hand. There is absolutely a strong case to be made for maximizing the next 2 seasons while you still have Jones at a high level and McDuffie/Karlaftis at reasonably low cap hits.
And if that's the approach you take, Armstead or Stanley is a distinction without a difference.
Now if you take a look at Jackson's tape and decide that he's not just a product of easy assignments created by McVay's offense and that he presents both a viable long-term answer AND strong short-term answer -- cool, do that. Provided he doesn't extend prior to FA (and he might).
But now ain't the time to be closing doors.