Quote:What cap issues? Have you looked at our free cap room? We are ditching a decent cap hit from JT too... Why would we offer Beachum the contract, if we didn't expect him to fulfill it? Who do we need to pay that our free cap space won't cover? Bortles is not a 20 mil/year QB. ARob is a serviceable WR1, not elite. Who are we going to pay over the next 4 years? A CB, 2 LBs, and maybe 2 DEs, we have nobody on this team worth a top $ contract yet.. You pay a premium on LT's, you have to. By the time Beachum's 4 year option is up, thats when you pay the Ramseys and the Ngakoues.

We offered that contract to Beachum for him to prove it this past season and if we weren't happy with his play we'd let go of him...which is exactly what we did. He wasn't worth the option that we would have picked up. I would have been fine picking it up and hoping for a rebound, but his play was definitely very underwhelming last year and wasn't nearly what I expected from him. If he doesn't fit what Marrone/TC want this OL to do (he is a very poor run blocker and always has been, which is something I know we want to do which is likely a big reason for us letting him) than good riddance. Find someone who fits better and someone you feel can be good here. They view that in Albert.

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