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Originally Posted by dlphg9
You just don't like the signing.
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You've got it backwards.
It's
because of that tendency that I'm...wary...of the signing. I'm not jumping up and down and calling it a disaster. I'm simply not popping Champaign corks here either.
His incentives (and probably offseason payday) were going to be tied to his pass-rush ability. So I think he took essentially took run downs off last season to save himself for the pass rush snaps. He had the worst run-defense of his career last season.
Do I care a great deal? Nah, not really - that's not his job. I'd like him to get back to where he was in 2021 and 2022 on run def, but it's secondary . Run defense is not my concern. If he's the same player for the next 3 years that he was in 2023, the deal is fine. It'll work out for us.
My concern is that he was willing to take those plays off to boost his 'money' stats. And so it makes me wonder if it was the money that was driving him. I'm not saying it is - I'm just not willing to say it isn't.