Quote:"2a. I can’t believe you can’t believe the Marcell Dareus trade! O.K., fair enough, no one ever gets traded, so you were right to spit-take. And, actually, it’s pretty stunning that now two teams have been willing to take on the albatross that is Dareus’s contract.

I could be wrong (I often am!), but I am bordering on physically ill over this deal from the Jaguars standpoint. (I also just ate 11 ounces of candy corn, which could be a contributing factor.) There are the obvious non-football concerns with Dareus; he’s been suspended twice under the league’s substance-abuse policy and the Bills sent him home from a preseason game this past summer for violating team rules. After that, he was made him available via a “free stuff” ad on Craigslist and a guy from West Seneca emailed to say he’d take him but then never showed to pick him up."

The contract, signed in 2015, was absolutely toxic, one of the worst deals for any team in football, hefty and inescapable for a player who can be great but more often . . . well. But a 2018 cap hit just north of $10 million for a high-risk player is only part of the problem. There is incredible depth at interior defensive line across the NFL right now. Remember what happened to Johnathan Hankins this past offseason? He’s a quality interior D-lineman, and he eventually had to settle for course credit as compensation with the Colts, and he’s not even sure those credits are gonna transfer. I kid, he got a three-year $27 million deal with the $10 million in guarantees due up front—essentially a one-year deal with two one-year options for the team—which means he has a more palatable deal than what remains on Dareus’s contract. Hankins, of course, isn’t quite the talent Dareus is. But he also doesn’t bring the baggage...."