Always take the dl passrusher. Shorter distance to the qb, harder to defend

Yep, pretty much

There are going to be many that want to play in KC now. Best move is to open as much bank as you can and don’t shoot yourself in the foot on payday

It’s the scheme.
Listen to Tom Brady before the game.

He’s playing chess and Sutton is playing checkers.

Dwight Freeney is not the kind of guy you want to be paying premium money to. Freeney was one of the main reasons why the Colts defense was as bad as it was for the entirety of Manning's tenure. If teams weren't down by two scores, the easiest way to move the ball was to run right at Freeney, because he'd almost constantly take himself right out of the play.

As Mecca alluded to, that's the problem with guys like Jones and Ford. They do one thing really well, but balanced teams will punish them for their inability to play the run. Sometimes it's not about the one sack you pick up, but the multiple times you fit in your run assignment and turn an eight yard gain into a two yard gain.

If Ford was a baseball player he'd be Adam Dunn--he's great when the homers are coming, but if they aren't he offers nothing else to the team.

That's why you have situational players. Ford is a situational pass rusher. If you put him on the field in passing situations only he's an asset. That's also why you don't pay him. Let another team make that mistake.

Jones should probably be a strongside DE in early downs and shift inside in a four man front in passing downs.

At some point you can’t just count on having to scheme guys into sacks though and you need someone who can get it themselves

I’m not sure what they’ll do here

I can see that. You could make the case though that with this offense you’re going to have teams playing catch up and throwing it a lot and you’ll need pass rushers.

I think it would probably make more sense to let someone else pay ford and take that money to get 2 or 3 mid level guys.

Try and build as much good depth on d

You do need pass rushers, but you shouldn't pay a one-dimensional pass rusher with durability concerns elite money. That's why it's so important to draft well. You don't have to draft a Justin Houston every other year, but if someone like K-Pass wasn't a bucket of pig shit then there's no need to pay Ford at all because you'd have his replacement for 10% of his cap hit. The Patriots are who they are in part because they never overpay for guys like Dee Ford. They wouldn't even pay Chandler Jones (which was, arguably, a mistake), who is much better than Dee Ford.

This is where it pays to have a defensive developer that can scheme up and develop some of that.

While I do agree,

I just wanna say, I’ll bet if Dee Ford was on the Pats last night and lined up off sides like that; Belicheck would’ve been like **** you, you’re out the door! The Chiefs are more like “yeah we’ll consider signing you.” Thats the difference between the Patriots and the Chiefs.

Consider it this way:

Would you rather have

A) A great speed rusher who can't defend the run at all

or

B) An excellent defensive back

The premium placed on pass rushers actually makes a Dee Ford-type player overvalued in this instance. He'll get paid like a great player because of the sack numbers, but those don't tell the whole story of who he is.

They pulled Ford last night and put in Speaks to defend the run. IMO if you are going to pay a OLB $16 million he better do it all and not come off the field.

That’s for sure

It seems defense is trending even more now than ever before into the fact that you have to have at the very least adequate nfl starters everywhere.

Well coached fundamental and what not but when I look at the best defenses around the league, they have a whole slew of good players and not the 3 great and 8 not