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Originally Posted by RunKC
It's a 19 game season for us on average in the Mahomes era. It seems like a bad idea to pay Chris Jones a $30 million price tag at 30 when you already have Mahomes enormous contract and guys get hurt.
Look at what the Tyreek trade and benefits did for this team? Look at what extra draft picks and flexibility did for the Ravens in 2018, 2020 and 2022?
Free up money to bring in above average performers relative to pay like Tranquill, Omenihu and Edwards and then use your picks to go BPA and fill out the roster.
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Depth and above average performers get you thru the regular season, to the playoffs.
As we've seen, you need elite players in the playoffs. Will Chris be that going forward? Age probably says no, so you let him walk and move on.
The Tyreek trade was great and helped get McDuffie etc. It's also not as likely gonna work like that and you end up with good players, but not great players and you've downgraded a bit.
It's a whole hell of alot easier to find your Edwards and Tranquills every year. Those guys are always available to be had.
The elite ones aren't. Is Sneed that? I'd probably argue.....shit I don't really even know what I'd say there. He's pretty damn good but they've shown to be able to draft secondary players. I'd rather trust my process to draft and develop another guy and use the money to go pay a guy at a spot I may have whiffed on.