03-09-2021, 05:02 PM
(03-09-2021, 03:49 PM)Au165 Wrote: I find it interesting people are so willing to simply punt on playing any semblance of defense next year. If you want to be in a shootout that means Burrow is going to be dropping back 50 times a game again. Even with better protection, 50 dropbacks a game lends itself to a greater risk of injury. We need another pass rusher along with Carl Lawson, if we simply swap out Lawson for one we are probably as bad or worse in terms of our ability to get to the QB next year.
I get people like toys and all, but we have to have some sort of defense out there or else we will see gaudy stats but still a ton of losses.
Who says people are willing to "punt on playing any semblance of defense"?
Because they don't want to overpay Lawson, or invest 30 million dollars in 2021 cap space into CB1 and CB2?
You can use that money elsewhere. Hell, you could get two really good veterans (say a DE and a DT or a LB) for the price of Lawson's tag. Who is to say that doesn't do more to help the defense than paying Lawson almost double his actual worth?
