PFF pass block comparison - Bengals OL vs Bucs OL

[Murdock2420]

(04-16-2021, 02:34 PM)Au165 Wrote: Not saying this will be the case, but Shaq Barrett got a 1-year deal in Tampa for 4 million when no one wanted to sign him in 2019 and he led the league in sacks.  Barrett wasn't quite league minimum but he was the 16th highest free agent Edge (Behind a lot of guys no one has heard of) in 2019, so the scouts missed pretty badly there. Success comes down to a lot of things, talent, desire, scheme, and opportunity all play a role. Will Spain be the best guard in the NFL? No, probably not. Can he be decent even though no one as far as we know offered him any more than we did? Sure.

Barrett also was injured his last year in Denver and they only started him in 15 games over 5 seasons. He was completely misused there.

Signed a one year deal with Tampa, starts all 16 games, is used correctly and goes off on his sack total. Gets the franchise tag, plays well under it and now has a 4 year extension worth 72 million.

This is a terrible comparison.

Spain came in, and after being here he didn't get a long term extension, he was the back-up plan to the back-up plan. Thuney they missed, Zeitler they missed, then there was a long pause and finally they gave him a 1 year extension.

As Fred said if they were sold he was the answer, he would have gotten more then 1 year and they wouldn't have waited so long.