03-09-2016, 09:59 PM
(03-09-2016, 09:14 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: You don't think it makes sense to keep a veteran presence around when you're transitioning to an unproven tackle who is coming off an injury?
We paid him 1.09 million. The vet minimum for a 10 year veteran in 2016 is $985,000. You're complaining about 100k?
https://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-and-the-veteran-cap-benefit-rule/
If you want to extend Zeitler, then you should be happy we signed Winston over Andre. Andre would cost 6+ million per. Not only that, you'd be keeping Ogbuehi on the bench.
Yea man. Dude was on his couch two years ago. And we act like we found some irreplaceable piece. Give a young guy a shot or somebody with any type of upside. We know exactly what Winston is. A guy that if we have to count on to block a good NFL defender we are in a world of shit. He flat out isn't good. And if anything he is on the downside, he is not getting better with age. And really if we needed him. I think he would be available on his couch where we found him.
There are countless replacement level NFL linemen available. We didn't find some unknown goldmine sitting on his couch. This is the type of back end of the roster guy you are supposed to try to replace. We have veterans galore on the offensive line, our best team leader Whit will show the young guys all they need to know. And we have a first and second round pick from last year that could play RT in a pinch. I'd rather give an UDFA a chance for league minimum. We might get lucky and find someone with some value.
If Winston has to come in and save the day. The day will not be saved.
