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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
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.
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This is where it pays to have a defensive developer that can scheme up and develop some of that.