Quote:we should have paid Monroe whatever he wanted.  he wasn't AMAZING, but he was good enough.  LT is harder to find than people realize... including our GM apparently.

You are correct There are two reasons some rationalize trading him for peanuts.

1.That he did not want to be here. I never read one comment from Monroe saying he did not want to be here. In fact the opposite.

2. He was due to make X amount, and that's just too high. LIke it's the fans money or something. Was it too high? Combine the salaries paid to Joeckel and the salary of the high round draft pick to replace him if we go that route. We won't even get into the economics of lost games and what that cost the club.

 

Trading Monroe was one of the biggest bonehead mistakes Caldwell has made. Actually probably the stupiest, and Baltimore had to be laughing their butts off at the rookie Front office. Now here we sit after drafting two tackles at number one, and have a potential bust on our hands.

That move was worse than drafting Anger, at least we are not looking for a new punter and it was only a 3rd rounder.

The Jags have basically blown 2 top ten picks, and one was traded away because he was not a Superstar in Caldwell's mind, and have zilch to show for it. We just had to get rid of EVERYBODY, the Knightons and the Monroes and the Smith's, and my oh my could we use a linebacker and left tackle now.

Maybe Monroe wasn't a superstar, but his play was good enough that we did not have to worry about the left tackle spot and could use our top ten pick on other things, like trading down for some linebackers or tight ends.

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