(12-18-2018, 02:39 AM)LMD Wrote:

(12-17-2018, 07:47 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I don't disagree with you as far as Yeldon.  Yeldon is going to go where the money is and I don't blame him.  I suspect that the "money" is going to involve "guaranteed" money.  However, he's not going to get "Bell" kind of money by any means.  He's good but not that good.  With that being said, a lucrative contract with incentives might convince him to stay.  You just never know... a deal could and might be made (I doubt it).

Unfortunately, for an incentive-laden contract to be "lucrative," it has to be possible to hit those incentives. Yeldon's not signing an incentive contract to be the 2nd, or potentially 3rd, back after being the most consistent rusher, receiver, and blocker on this team, when some team is going to pony up money up-front for his versatility. Especially when the team is obsessed with running LF straight up the middle 25 times a game, when he's not injured.

It's a shame that it took a few years for Yeldon to finally hit his stride; this team could have used this production years ago rather than just barely getting to reap the rewards of his potential only to lose him to FA.

As for Hyde, I'm absolutely speechless that this team so carelessly threw away a 5th. Someone needs to be fired for this trade. I don't even care if it's a random janitor. Trading a 5th for a player you refuse to use in the midst of a season spiraling out of control is inexcusable.

In hindsight, the trade is awful and a waste of a 5th round pick, agreed completely.

When the team actually made the trade, it did make complete sense. I've never been a fan of Hyde and it was a wasted pick, but we were hurting at RB when the trade was made and the season wasn't exactly over yet...

This team was 3-3 at the time of the trade. Fournette was out indefinitely with his hamstring injury. Grant was on IR and Yeldon was battling through an ankle injury.

Yeldon was our only RB at that time and he was playing with a bad ankle.. That's why they made the trade, because they were one ankle tweak away from having nobody at RB.

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