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Originally Posted by TambaBerry
Yes and can't disagree with you on that but if the other three didn't have him on the line would they still have produced that well?
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If you'd give Clark's snaps to Ogbah and given Ivey the rotational role that Ogbah presently, we wouldn't be quite as good - no.
But we wouldn't be that much worse off either. Like I said, Clark has played at functional starter level to this point - that's...functional. But it's not good. And Flowers could've gotten us 'functional starter' level easily. Preston Smith was a guy I really wanted in the off-season and he'd have done that and then some. Za'Darius Smith has looked great. Both guys cheaper AND we'd probably have Ya-Sin in the defensive backfield which would've sure been nice while Ward was half-assing that hail-mary sent his way.
The point isn't "what if he just didn't exist and we spent $20 million and 2 draft picks on hookers and blow..." - it's the opportunity cost of what was spent on Clark. And right now its troublesome. It will be especially so if we can't bring Jones back who has clearly been the most important part of this DL to this point.