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Originally Posted by RunKC
No way in hell should we get Clowney. He is still a work in progress and we don’t know for sure if he will work out. He’s never had double-digit sacks. I’m not paying huge money for players with questions.
Teams shouldn’t be spending huge money on pass rushers unless they are truly elite, and the deal should not be 5 or 6 years long.
Alex Okafor was a great get. He’s got half the sacks of Clowney, he’s a good run defender overall like him and he is built similarly. Give me Okafor at 1/3 of the price of the pass rushers getting paid. It’s smart to get pass rushers like Okafor, Houston and Bennett who are still talented with manageable cap hits. Then draft pass rushers early to get good young talent for cheap for 4-6 years.
I’m fine with paying a LB or DB big money. Hitchens and Honey Badger got paid elite money when they were signed and it’s still nowhere near as much as a premier pass rusher would get paid.
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Sorry but Clowney has been a top dlineman and a complete player for at least two years now.
He is definitly worth something close to Demarcus Lawrence in terms of contract.
The problem I have with not trading for any good D-end but just drafting one is that in a year of SB or bust, we know the usual contribution of a 1st year Dline player and coupled with Speaks, Kpassagnon and Okafor at D-end, that's way too much of an unknown and likely not good enough.
It's either you put on the field a real strong Dline and you can go with some unknown in the secondary or vice-versa.