(11-27-2018, 07:25 AM)navyjagfan Wrote: Dareus is the most likely DL to return next season.  Malik Jackson is almost certainly gone, and Calais Campbell is simply going to be one year older and he's about a $10 M cap savings.  You keep Abry Jones and Marcell Dareus as the starters at DT, rotate in Bryan on passing downs, and Smoot takes over at the other end spot.  Draft is deep with DT's anyway.

I think they'll work out a restructured deal with Campbell.  He's too valuable an asset as a leader in the locker room on a team that is sorely lacking for leadership.  It helps that he's still productive.  They can probably work out a deal that incentivises his production while being more cap friendly for the team so that they can fix other gaping holes this team needs to address.

When Dareus is on, he is absolutely dominant.  It's difficult to find a big guy like him who is as athletic, but if you watch him out there, he is all over the place impacting plays.  My concern is that he has started with back issues, and that could become more of a problem moving forward, but I agree that he is probably the one guy that they will retain.

It's pretty much a consensus that Jackson is the first man out because of his contract.

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