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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
You're gonna have to sell me on Gaines here. Biggly.
Because your offseason plan says he's good enough to call up The Bank of Mahomes and ask for a loan to pay for him. Don't sign Gaines and you can probably avoid the Mahomes deferrals.
I see Gaines as a 2 year contract guy where the 2nd one isn't even a real year. He doesn't do anything particularly well. He's not an interior rusher, not a good run defender. He's just there. He's a guy you can get in the 4th round virtually every year.
I see zero chance Saunders gets the kind of money you've paid Gaines in this hypothetical and I'd much prefer Saunders over Gaines if the price points are the same (and Saunders is likely to cost far less).
What are you seeing here? This is a street free agent caliber player, IMO.
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I feel exactly the same about Gaines. He's a 4th rounder that comes around at that point every year. There's nothing he does that well, or that badly. He isn't a premier run-stuffer, there's no pass-rush juice and he doesn't appear to have developed much since his rookie year. Not saying he's a terrible option but there's guys like Billings, Wormley etc that surely offer just as much for less than we're proposing. I'd take him over Saunders any day if the cost was equivalent, but I'm assuming there's a large gap between them.