Good info into the Dunlap saga

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(10-29-2020, 05:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No new coach cuts every single player.  They all keep the good and get rid of the bad.  Dunlap averaged 9 sacks and 25 QB hits over the previous 7 seasons.  there is not a coach in the league who would dump a player like that.  Those are the guys you build around.

This is utter nonsense. New regimes trade away good players who won't be part of the rebuild all the time and they don't rebuild around 31 year old DEs on the decline.

Taylor has been hamstrung by the Front Office's unwillingness to move on from 2015. Players like Eifert, Dalton, Billings, Glenn and maybe if not for injury Green and Dennard should have been traded away by the trade deadline last year and then Dunlap in the close season (or earlier if there was demand before the last trade window). The failure to do so and gain the necessary draft capital has extended the rebuild by at least a year.