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(02-24-2022, 10:19 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Which makes me wonder if his play will drop off again if he's distracted by a franchise tag, or 2 years down the road when he thinks he's underpaid, or 3 years down the road when the fully guaranteed money in his contract is up, or when he's in his contract year again, etc. Every year can be a minefield of his play dropping off, and this is a guy who was never delivering consistent play in the first place.

I don't mind guys being concerned about getting paid. That's their livelihoods. I do mind if guys let it affect their ability to play quality football because it makes me think this won't be the last time and that makes it hard to trust them. 

Think Revis and how he eventually just had to play a ton of essentially 1 year contracts because of it, but at least Revis was the best CB in the league for a few years before he became that.

I hope not and hope I'm wrong because a defender's play is less of a mind game than an offensive player because the offensive player has to think about more of the technical stuff and where they need to be or what they need to do, while a defender's play, while they do need to know assignments and their areas or who they need to cover, is more based off instinctual play.

Offensive players are also more worried about getting injured because, while defenders can tear things or break things, it's a lot less likely than offensive players.

I'm hoping that it has the opposite effect of what you're thinking and he'll just come out balls to the wall just knowing that he'll get an even bigger deal next year. Some people can do that and put it out of his mind while they're playing. I hope he's one of them.