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(02-24-2022, 10:32 AM)Au165 Wrote: I mean that's up to the coaches to decide if he was "awful" or not. Based on some of the deep dive on the 22 late in the year, I kind of want to go back and re watch some of the earlier games. The tackling issues weren't great but I wonder if coverage lapses were them in the early stages of installing what they were doing later in the year. They added a lot of interesting checks late that I don't remember seeing early, but I wasn't looking for them earlier either.

Either way, he would be the top safety on the market and would be highly coveted so thinking you are "sticking it" to him by not paying him doesn't really work. All not paying him does is hurt the team as there is no replacement on the roster and the draft may yield someone who eventually is capable but the near term impact will be heavy on the quality of play as a whole. 

It's not a matter of "sticking it" to him. Hence why I never used those words.

I also think there's a pretty large amount of safeties in this FA. Jordan Whitehead, Marcus Williams, Justin Reid, Xavier Woods, Quandre Diggs, Devin McCourty, Tyrann Mathieu, and plenty more. 

It seems like a huge WR FA year and a big S FA year.

It doesn't only hurt the team not paying him because that's $13m+ that can be spent elsewhere, which would help the team. EDIT: I would see tagging him and trading him as a possibility, but I think he needs to actually sign his tag before he can be traded.