11-27-2018, 11:48 AM
(11-27-2018, 11:02 AM)Au165 Wrote: Iloka got replaced because he was bad. They tried to bring in Kurt Coleman to replace him in the off season and ended up with a rookie to do it. The issue is with what he was making you simply don't keep those guys around as back ups, especially ones that don't play special teams. The money gets spent at a rate about middle of the road or higher in the league, the issue is where we spend our money is not sexy. Think about it like this, the Steelers let Mike Wallace and Emmanual Sanders leave years back when they were big time players. They instead used that money to retain some of their O and D line. Those guys are now the corner stone of their team and the reloaded with guys like AB and JuJu. It all works in concert, it's not the spending that is holding us back...seriously, it's the misses when we choose to spend and not that do tend to hurt.
Paying a guy like Burfict and Dre have not yielded well, when we could have spent it on linebackers who can cover or O linemen. They got big time contracts, they just haven't performed to them. That doesn't make us cheap it makes us bad at deciding who we do pay.
A guy like MJ gets paid a lot and is bad. The Bengals do it all the time.
Missing on Ced and Fisher really hurt this team bad.
