(03-06-2024, 07:12 AM)Hurricane Wrote: I just can't fathom giving up a 3rd round pick for a guy for one year. He didn't have the best of year, but he had a way better year than the majority of our WR's from the past. In my eyes, the only way giving up a 3rd and walking away from the player after year one, is he was just bad and didn't produce. In this case, he did produce. Yes he had some drops, ran some wrong routes. But we are talking about a guy that has been out of football for a few years.

I'm not clamoring he needs a big contract, but the franchise tag is perfect for him. Gives him another year to prove what he can do.

Instead we give it to Allen, someone who has proved he can play the part.

This is what good teams do. They move on from guys before they overpay.

What can we do with 15-20M if we move on? We saw what happened when we had him and no help up front.

Nobody is saying he isn't good, or that we'll miss his production. But if we have to gut the roster even more just to keep him around, is it really worth it?

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(03-06-2024, 07:57 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: How long does it take to knock the rust off a period of inactivity? I keep seeing references to Ridley’s time out of the league as an excuse. I’m not knocking the people who are saying it, I’m just genuinely curious about how long it takes to be proficient after one entire offseason and season to get back into game mode. It’s not like he’s learning something for the first time.

I saw rust maybe a few weeks into the season. The rest of the way, it was just we were incapable of running a realistic offense because our line was abhorrent.

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