(02-20-2022, 11:28 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(02-20-2022, 11:10 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: There are a lot of players we either traded away or let walk in free agency that are starting on better teams than ours.  

Besides, if they wouldn't be starting on any other team, we wouldn't be able to get anything in trade for them anyway.  

Our personnel problems aren't just bad drafting.  We've also failed to retain the good players we drafted.

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Correctamundo!

Trading away or prematurely cutting or otherwise failing to retain the players that we hit in the draft leaves us building on a treadmill and always behind the curve from a talent perspective.

That has to stop!

While I agree in theory, what if a player just refuses to play for this team anymore like Ramsey and Ngakoue did? Ramsey faked an injury in order to sit out until he was traded. Players are forcing team's hands anymore to get what they want. What do we do then? Do we force them to stay here while they chose to sit on I.R. with their "phantom injuries" or do we trade them and try to get the best deal we can?

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