(02-20-2021, 10:43 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(02-20-2021, 06:11 AM)CanDoBetter Wrote: Let's sign Donald then. Or Williams or Suh.

Not that easy?  Never knew there were downsides of a 3-4...Smoot is just a guy and can be replaced easily and where would you play him? He's not good enough to be a LB in a 4-2 and not good enough against the run to be a DE in 3-4.

It's as if you don't realize there are only a limited number of really good players at each position and the salary cap means you need to compromise and/or hit on your high draft picks.

What's more is that plenty of Jags fan argue as if all the other 31 teams(give or take a handful awful franchises) have 53 man rosters where every single man is a first team All-Pro. The reality is that even on the strongest rosters a majority of the players are easlly replaceable 'just a guy'-types.

So again: what do you need from your 3-4  DE backup? A runstopper or a pass rusher?

I easily play him 3-4 DE. That's what he is made for. 

Dude, do you realize we have more cap money than any other team in the NFL? We don't need to worry about money this year. We just have to be careful for future years and how we structure contracts, so we don't end up like the how Saints currently are. Right now, we are in excellent shape though, so why not keep our best players? Keeping Gotsis over Smoot is just flat out, ignorant!

Who says we need an all-pro at every position? We're talking about Smoot. He's a pretty good player on a bad team. I wanna keep all the pretty good players that we have. I just want serviceable players at every starting position and we didn't even come close to having that last season. I don't know where you are coming up with this stuff? Nobody is asking for all-pros. That was never even mentioned. 

Ideally, I want someone who at least has the ability to do a little bit of both. I hate having one-dimensional players at any position. We desperately need to generate some kind of pass rush, because our secondary stinks! I don't trust either one of our current OLB's, so why not at least try to keep guys with some pass rushing abilities who can play DE? Nobody is saying Smoot is Suh or Donald, but he does have the ability to get to the QB and did so more than any of our other players last year and he wasn't even a starter.

Good that we don't have any other holes so you can spend a fortune on a backup. You still don't get that the multidimensional 3-4 DE you're looking for isn't available unless we somehow can get JJ Watt to come here. Then we can use Costin, Hamilton or someone else of our current starters as backup. 

Smoot is just a guy. I can't believe you're willing to die on that hill.

PS I said I don't think they're keeping any of them. It's not like I will worry about that.

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