(01-29-2021, 09:21 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(01-29-2021, 09:08 AM)Mikey Wrote: ...was he a 'starter'? I thought Paul Tonyan was A. A. Ron's go-to-TE

He started in the playoffs.  

I don't know that all the guys on the list were starters for the first game of the season.  I do know that they all started in the playoffs.   

A lot of the guys on the list were "just guys" for us, and we apparently thought we could do better, and let them walk.  Obviously, we did not do better.  And, I have a hard time believing that Caldwell would tank on purpose when the result would inevitably be for him to lose his job.  That's why I think the list is evidence of incompetence, nothing more.

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(01-29-2021, 09:16 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Seven players on that “amazing list” are also not starters.

They all started in the playoffs.

Starting due to injury and starting at a ST position is misleading at best IMO.

Don’t get me wrong - I hate that we haven’t been smarter about retaining talent going all the way back to Daryl Smith. I get your point.

I just think there are only four players on your list that we realistically could have and should have kept. 

The rest are either no real loss, irretrievable malcontents, middling rotation guys, or one trick role players.

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