(03-26-2018, 06:01 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(03-26-2018, 01:35 PM)NJ JagsFan Wrote: Maybe this Moncreif signing is a smoke screen for when we make a blockbuster trade for Odell.

haha on a real note, I really don't understand paying this guy 10m who hasn't proven anything and all based on potential. I honestly have a hard time seeing him even beating out Lee, Cole and Dede..

It's not about beating them out. It's about having a different skill-set than them - one that the receiver corps was missing last year w/o Robinson. 

Sure, they are rolling the dice on his production vs his potential, but you have to trust your player evaluation sometimes over statistics. The Jags are betting on their evaluation with this deal as well as the Hayden deal. I hope they don't lose those bets.

That and it doesn't force them to draft a WR with that body type and skill set in the draft.  It doesn't necessarily stop them from it either, but provides more flexibility going into the draft.  I initially thought we egregiously overpaid and it may still prove that we did, but I just went through the combine numbers of this year's receivers and none that attended have Moncrief's combination of height, weight, speed and vertical so that probably helped push his price up as well.

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