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Originally Posted by Mecca
Ok well then we're always going to be starting from behind then. Flowers has always had injury issues they're only going to get worse as he ages. Hali is showing signs of his age also. I don't think they're terrible or anything like that but they are both highly paid for their ages and where their production is likely to go.
Eric Berry for as good as he is, doesn't deserve to be the highest paid safety in the NFL. A guy who spends most of his time as a 4th LB is frankly a waste to be paid that much. You can find guys for a quarter of the price who can do that.
If you overpay those guys to keep them you're doing nothing but keeping them out of sentimental reasons than what is best for the team.
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Trust me, I've been banging that drum loud when it comes to Hali and Flowers. Which is why it bothers me when people keep throwing out the "we should restructure their contracts" nonsense. Restructuring contracts prematurely means loading a ton of signing bonus on aging players. That's the shit people aren't accounting for. They act like if we just move cap dollars around, we suffer no future consequence. The big consequence is it's stuff like this that gets you locked into bad contracts with players where you can't cut a player when they start to decline.