Why are we not extending our good players?

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(03-08-2021, 11:02 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: I think both are good players with bad coaches.

WJIII and Lawson on a team with a good front office and good coaches will get more production out of them. 

I might agree that they'd be better with good coaches, but their limitations are very clearly not something that can be coached.

I don't trust Lawson to be able to have the durability/ability to be a full time starter. The injury history is a huge red flag and the fact that once he became the starter in Week 5, he only had 2.0 sacks in 12 games isn't great. I think he loses a step from fatigue when he's being asked to play a large workload every week, and that step is the difference between a sack and a qb hit. Ideally he'd be a #3 DE who is a pass rushing specialist.

Jackson just doesn't have the hands/instincts to be anything more than a decent CB. 3 INT and 41 Pdef in 5 years, never more than 1 INT or 14 Pdef in a single season. He also misses more than his fair share of tackles (119 solo tackles, 15 missed tackles). There's also a durability concern with him as well, as he has only played 16 games in 1 of his 5 years, and has missed multiple games in 3 of his 5.

Out of those issues/concerns, the only one that could be coached up is Jackson's tackling. Health can't be coached up, instincts can't be coached. 

In 9 total seasons (5 from Jackson, 4 from Lawson) they have a combined 5 turnovers forced (INT + FF). That's a single season for a good player. If you combine Leon Hall's first 5 years with Dunlap's first 4 years, they had 34. Nearly 7 times more.