Quote:Do you even know what a straw man argument is?

 

Point is you can draft and develop and let a guy get traded, or even walk away and keep winning.

 

Getting Shorts on a long term deal here won't be what determines the success of the Jaguars.

 

Yeah, I do actually.  And Pittsburgh has nothing to do with Jacksonville.  But, if you want to argue the point, where have the steelers seen their offensive rankings land the past couple of years?  20th?  21st?  They haven't cracked .500 since 2011, so it's working out splendidly for them.

 

Your point isn't rocket science.  But, you can also draft and develop a guy, then when he comes up for contract time, extend him.  Oddly enough, a lot of teams do that with a pretty high rate of success.  Every team is different. 

 

Nobody is saying getting an extension for Shorts is the lynchpin for success.  But, the team is not better off if we're trading him for some mid to late round pick. 

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