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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
I imagine they want more time for guys like Cam Jones.
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Well they'll get it. Tranquil won't stay healthy all season. Bolton may not. Chenal is so physical he probably won't.
There are going to be injuries to the LB Corps.
And hey - young LBs are a blast, man. They're fun to watch develop. Young and powerful and they fly around the field. UDFA and late round picks are great stories to root for.
It might well be a lot of fun to watch some of these guys develop.
But it was a lot of fun watching Willie Gay blow up guys the size of Buicks and run like a deer. Again - I'm not saying we can't live without him. I just don't think it's fair to understate how important he was the last 2 seasons.
With that on his resume, we should've come up with $3 million to keep him around, IMO. And with the VSB, it wouldn't have cost us as much on the cap as we paid him. He'd have been something like a $2.25 million cap hit for us. I just feel like a team sitting on $16 million in space probably should've come up with that instead of throwing good money after bad with Nnadi.