(02-21-2022, 09:57 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(02-19-2022, 06:11 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: We have a few current players on this team that just aren't working out and should be dealt. Who are the players you would be shopping, if you were in the front office? 


1. Myles Jack- You just can't fit a square peg into a round hole. Jack is a pure 4-3 OLB, but we run a 3-4 base defense and he just doesn't have a role with this team anymore. We could save $6 million by dealing him somewhere and we could use that savings to find a player who really fits the role of a 3-4 ILB like we need. He is the player that I start shopping immediately. 

2. Jawaan Taylor- I don't know if we could get anything at all for this guy, but if someone is willing to give us a conditional 7th rounder, I take it. If we get no offers, I cut him outright. He is a liability. 

3. Laviska Shenault- I take the best offer we can get. I know he's cheap, but he is also a liability. He gets worse every year and if I have to see him drop another catchable pass, I'm gonna punch a hole in my TV. He was as much a liability last season as Jawaan Taylor was. 


I would love to deal Rayshawn Jenkins somewhere, but he has a $13 million dead cap hit, so we are stuck with him for another season at least. The same goes for Roy Robertson-Harris. He has a $10.6 million deal cap hit. Both players were complete wastes of money in last season's free agency.

Holy crap that last paragraph. Wonder if the folks who try to defend Baalke can spin that into a positive.

Jack might be tradeable, and in your list, I think he might be the only one I can say that for.

Taylor is probably young and cheap enough to allow a year to serve as backup guard/RT. I don't see him starting next season once all the shuffling along the line is done. If he refuses to serve as backup or play guard as previously reported, I think you have to let him walk, because he'd almost certainly lose a competition with whoever else we slot at RT.

I've never known what we have or what we intended with Shenault. That might be part of the problem, having no role, no expertise, no plays that make your ability the focus. Who's going to want a guy they have no idea what he does (or does best)?

Personally, I don't ever wanna see Taylor on the field for us ever again. He almost makes me as nervous as Ephraim Salaam when he used to play for the Jaguars..........almost.

Shenault never really had a true position when he played at Colorado either. They moved him all over the place. He was used more like a "weapon" than a true position player with the Buffalos.

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(02-21-2022, 10:40 AM)scottyg Wrote:

(02-20-2022, 12:09 PM)RicoTx Wrote: I distinctly recall people complaining about Allen Robinson dropping the ball too much his first or second year.

Jimmy Smith dropped a lot of catchable balls too.  Probably held onto him to long as well.

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm.

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