02-17-2022, 12:18 PM
(02-17-2022, 12:04 PM)brian5562 Wrote: 100% correct. We’ve seen not keeping glue guys lead to our beloved teams falling back to being mediocre. Two names always come to mind for me. Tony Perez and Max Montoya.
It’s totally worth keeping Bates and CJ around because of what they bring to the locker room.
And we know that, production-wise, CJ will never command that huge salary. I believe as long as he's nicely compensated he'd like to remain a key cog that can catch 40-50 balls a year, block his ass off like he does and get back to AFC championship games in a city he's comfortable in and beloved.
And salaries aren't paid based on anything more than that team "hoping" production stays the same or increases and really only what a player has done previously and Bates has been very productive overall prior to the incredible playoff performance.
