Budda signs 3 year extension

[schutd]

Safeties are playing 60% of snaps in coverage.

Would you rather have one that has an INT every 2.5 games for $7m or one that's a good tackle for $18m?

I'd rather not reduce my defensive leaders value down to a black and white statistical relationship.

 

[schutd]

I'd rather spend money on more good players, not overpay a safety for "leadership".

You can get 90% of what Budda offers on the field, plus ball skills, for around half the money.

JC offers leadership, but we aren't overpaying him for it.

Based on your comparative, you can get all that in a guy who will not last on your team more than a season. Youre far too removed from the nuance of the game in this argument.

 

[BACH]

Great call out, but we played a very poor team and that has to be taken into account. If we see the same success against the Rams, I'll be on board with this...

Agree! But the main issue was mitigated with the change of scheme. We'll see how succesful the change is once we play a better opponent.

 

[BritCard]

...and if he could throw the football, he'd be a 40m player, lol.

And despite all of that, he is our best player, and it isn't even close.

3 years / 30 guaranteed seems like a great fit for both sides, especially if a lot of that cap goes into this year. Sadly, he'll likely be gone by this team ever really competes, but I guess you could say the same thing to about 98% of every Cardinal player ever, lol.

Being our best player is relative, you can be both our best player and well overpaid.

 

[BritCard]

I'd rather not reduce my defensive leaders value down to a black and white statistical relationship.

We're paying $18m per year to a safety that has a 110 career passer rating allowed, allows 73% of passes where he is the cover man to be caught and has 7 career interceptions in 8 seasons, because he's a great tackler and has leadership qualities. Both things that are not hard to find in the NFL.

What is hard to find is safeties that can cover and are a threat to the ball. Those are the safeties that get paid.

The top 5 highest paid safeties outside Budda,

Jessie Bates - 84 passer rating allowed, 63% comp rate, 23 career interceptions in 7 seasons.
Xavier McKinney - 69 passer rating allowed, 67% comp rate, 16 career interceptions in 5 seasons
Minkah Fitzpatrick - 81 passer rating, 62% comp rate, 19 career interceptions in 9 seasons
Derwin James - 81 passer rating, 66% comp rate, 9 career interceptions 5.5 seasons
Antoine Winfield - 116 passer rating, 71% comp rate, 7 interceptions in 5 seasons

I just discovered Winfield is also massively overpaid, but him aside you can see the trend. Ballhawk safeties get paid.

You know who the next leading tackler is behind Budda at safety? Nick Cross from Indy. Someone I'm sure you never heard of.

I love Budda, he's a great downhill player, one of the best in the league. That's just not worth close to $18m per year.