This is the most stupid take, maybe on all of CP. you think jones is more impactful than hill, kelce, thornhill, and hardman put together. Pass whatever you’re smoking bud! :)

My response was to rushing the QB not defending the run. Stay on track here.
But since you went there I will say that you are still incorrect in what you think you saw. The run D came together after the first Titan game when they sat Pennel and didn't play Ragland. After that they played Pennel and Ragland on running downs and we were able to stop the run and still defend the pass well enough when a team tried to switch it up trying to catch us off guard. Spags rotated Nnadi, Jones and Saunders next to Pennel for the most part but sometimes he even put Jones at DE next to Pennel and or Nnadi.

The Sacksquatch voters are winning handily :thumb:

Errybody wanted to re-up HoboSpirit too.

I take it that by now you have read the rest of the thread and have figured out that there were two people yourself and one other that didn't figure out the obvious.

Trying to replace 1 stud with 2 average joes almost never works

There are only 53 slots available, give me one guy capable of producing like two... not vice versa

We’ll see what Veach does, but my bet is squarely on Jones

I have Jones as one of my cornerstone players for this team.

I don’t know that them trading Jones automatically means they’ll just hand that $20M out to 2 or 3 other players that they’d bring in.

Really, trading Jones would signal a need for money to me that it almost certainly dedicated to Mahomes. Not adding new, relatively expensive players.

Yikes!

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I am fairly worried if it doesn’t work out with Jones that it might damage some good faith in the locker room. The locker room seems to be an all time high.

No argument about Dorsey there.

I did this exercise with my Hill thread. If you look through the highest paid contracts at every position they don’t look like a good deal. Hell Donald even didn’t have a great year this year.

I go back to the productivity per unit Salary Cap just doesn’t seem very good at all in any position other than good QBs. That’s perhaps exacerbated by all the first round bounces where the other team mitigates our good guy and he produces ****ing nothing in a first round bounce. But that doesn’t change the fact that if you paid for a dude that didn’t produce very much more than a dude half his price.

I'm surprised more players don't take a reasonable discount... Jones has a chance at the HOF if he wins another superbowl or 2 and would probably end up on the Ring of Honor. Also, the gov't takes 50% of any potential increase over a discount... Although they get 50% of the overall as well....

If this CBA deal with 2 extra games per season instead of 1 passes, you pay Jones what he wants and backload the holy hell out of it.

Instead of the average $10 million rise in the cap every year, it’s gonna easily be at least $15 million per year.

More probably. Cause they’re already getting a bigger chunk % wise.

I think there's a few reasons for this. Obviously one is that most of these guys came for poor backgrounds, and they can't even imagine turning down more money.

Then, consider that a lot of these guys are literally supporting their entire extended family. Parents, uncles, aunts, baby mommas, etc.

The average NFL career is about 3 years.

No one gets paid the last year of their contract.

Their agents get paid more if they get paid more, so . . .

Probably a few more reasons on top of those.

And the vast majority of players will never be inducted into the HOF, so why not take the money?

But if I were a player of Chris Jones' caliber, I would definitely think about the HOF and my legacy. Multiple SB rings would be a top goal right now, were I him. And I would take a discount to achieve that goal.

There are some reasons for taking a discount. If you live in a state that does not have state income tax. It probably would save you the difference in taxes.
If the contract is $5M less over the length of say 5 years then probably, especially if you are on a team that is contending or you already have roots.