Cool. Who?
Verrett gets my attention but his career has become an enigmaAvailable CB's
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30+ Bandaids:
Jones (but he may be done)
Peters (probably too expensive and will want multiple years)
Jackson
Roby
Hill
Fuller (from Baltimore, so he's at least had good coaching)
Callahan (probably selling brake pads now)
Antonio Hamilton (maybe just bring back who we know)
Ryan (getting long in the tooth, but can he give you another year at age 32?)
Verrett (played on a great defense)
It's not even about sacks, it's about pressures, which Zach produced quite a few of.
And he became good at getting his hands on passes as well.
He also had 8 pass blocks. Tied for tops in league among DL. Credited with 11 stuffs. He was more than just 5.5 sacks which is why he got paid. Also why MB specifically said they were looking at signing him. A players value is not what the Arizona Cardinals are willing to pay him.
Yet they will use those moves, or sad lack of moves, as the reason they need to make a bad trade back, ignoring the talent glaring them in the face, because they have more holes to fill. Paying Allen 15 mill a year to avoid that would have been well worth it.
Bad logic and fantasy wishes. If you're counting on Cam to partially fill Zach's void, then you need someone to fill Cam's void, and we don't know if Cam is good enough to fill in for Zach. We also don't know if Cam will be good enough to do more than what he's done so far. I hope so, and hope we give him the chance to, but why should you/the team/anyone have more faith in Cam than in Zach? And throwing in a rotational rookie doesn't sound like good sense to plug a starting spot on the DL. Add a rotational rookie to Cam, and you STILL need to add a starter, and you're STILL not a heck of a lot better than before.
Right, because you can totally project a rookies numbers over roughly 2/3 more playing time :eyeroll: I cannot disagree more with these arguments. You can be good with it all you like, but it won't mean our DL isn't in much worse shape and we now have another big hole to fill there.
Cool. Who replaces JJ Watts’s sacks?
Agree. I think it’s foolish. And I think it’s likely the reflect of a pair of decisionMakers both in their first go ‘round in their respective role. Neither has the lead role experience to check the other. So the arrogance of that plan snowballs. And yes, I think it’s arrogant to believe that a person who has no experience as the lead decisionmaker is going to perform as would a top 5% decisionmaker. Because that’s what you’re counting on if you believe you’re going to be successful building solely through two drafts - and from where things stand today, that certainly feels like the plan.
So that’s exactly what is going to happen.
Having two of those guys as a starting point on the line would have been a luxury . . .
Luxuries
Again, you could have had both for an average of $8M per year. Not bad.
On what was already a bad defense.
The problem for me is it shouldn’t be a Cam vs Zach, It should be a Cam plus Zach. addition not subtraction.
Best guess, is Will Anderson at pick #4 and then a DT in rounds 3-4.
