TwistedChief |
09-01-2023 12:52 PM |
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Originally Posted by -King-
(Post 17083450)
I just keep going back to, if people thought he was so expendable, we should have been hearing calls to trade him going back to before the draft. And if you think he's only worth .5 of a win, then you should not want to re-sign him at any premium price.
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One problem with these measures of WAR - which people still can’t agree on for football - at a time like this is that we’re not replacing him with average level replacement players. We could easily be replacing him with negative WAR contributors. Is Coburn going to be an average DT? We know about Nnadi. Farrell was going to be released by Oakland. Danna and Wharton are probably pretty average.
Plus, we likely need to change a lot of what we do on defense to manufacture pressure in other ways which creates voids elsewhere. It’s just a lot more pressure on the rest of the defense and other blind spots created, and that’s not something that WAR is going to be good at capturing.
I think it’s insane to feel like having him or, say, some combination of Danna/Wharton is nearly immaterial to our end of season record.
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