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Originally Posted by Mecca
It's not about being a money hungry bitch, it's about getting the best contract he can and if other team will pay him as a LT he'll expect that.
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You are making a lot of assumptions in that process. The average NFL player's career is 3 years. And I know that we can reasonably believe that Albert will have a long career but thinking 4 years down the road about Albert's contract is a little bit ridiculous for the 2-14 Chiefs at this point. A lot of things can happen in 4 years. Albert's contract is currently a good value for a RT and Monroe would be a good value at LT with the #3 pick considering the other options that we have if we
can't trade down.
Say Albert plays a good 4-years at RT and Monroe plays well at LT during that time as well. We would most likely have great o-line play during that 4 year period and the last time we had great o line play, we had the best offense in the league.
Another point is that if Albert doesn't want to resign for reasonable money, we can always franchise him and trade him for picks, the same way we did with Jared Allen. And if you ask me that's a great way to continue the success of your team because you don't end up having huge contracts tied up into one player and you can continue to build through the draft with the picks that you traded the franchise player for.
All the downside of Albert's contract being a problem 4-years down the road really aren't a problem at all when you consider the trade value that Albert will have and the compensation that we will receive.