02-24-2022, 04:48 PM
(02-24-2022, 01:22 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I wasn't going by PFF, though people were more than happy to use that to prove he did well in 2020 (which he did). I was going with my eyes, PFR, Bates own words of admitting he wasn't focused, the FO's reluctance to pay him.
I heard from a national reporter that Joe Burrow would refuse to play for the Cincinnati Bengals if drafted by them. Sure glad single national reporters have more value than literally everything else in front of you.
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Oh, so what you really meant is mostly a bunch of historically poorly run teams continue to be poorly run. Super shocking and nothing to do with some kind of franchise tag curse.
Kirk Cousins starting record with DC was 26-30-1. The best record that DC had while Cousins was there was his rookie year in 2012, when RG3 was the starter.
Jaguars WITH Yannick were 24-40. That's a shitshow even before then.
The Texans won 10 games and a playoff game THE year they got rid of Clowney, and Clowney followed it up with 3 sacks over the next 2 years. You're confusing the Clowney business in 2019 with Bill O'Brien trading away a top-3 All-Pro WR for an expensive broken RB and a 2nd round pick in 2020, which had nothing to do with franchise tagging.
The Steelers had an overweight QB/rapist get into his late 30s. Even then they've had 0 losing seasons, 3 winning seasons, and 2 playoff appearances in the 4 years since Le'Veon Bell left.
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I think you're vastly overestimating the importance of a FS on the 18th overall/17th scoring/26th passing defense.
Yes, I’m saying dysfunctional organizations do dysfunctional things. I’m also saying if we aren’t one of those dysfunctional organizations anymore it would behoove use not to do dysfunctional things.
As to overeating them, they were really good down the stretch and through the playoffs. The defense is further along than the offense and frankly there is nothing saying we will actually get the OL fixes right but we have a solid defense now so keeping that together would be the safer approach. I still contend Jesse Bates has nothing to do with the approach to fixing the OL because the outgoing cash they are willing to spend (not cap) has already been decided either way.
