Quote:If we franchise him this same situation happens next year, when we still arent contending.

 

I can see your point if you think Caldwell should have paid him top LT money, but he either didnt want to or Monroe didnt want to be back. The latter seems to be more likely.

 

Here is Monroes situation:

 

Gets drafted to a team and wins goes 7-9 8-8 2-14 and now we are having another horrible season and are in the midst of a rebuild. Would you rather a.) leave after this year in free agency or b.) return to a rebuilding team after you have njoyed no success in your first 4 years of your career.

 

He probably didnt want to come back. Yeah we could have franchised him but that wouldnt change any trade value because he would still only have a 1 year deal, like he is right now.

 

That's crap every time we trade, release or don't resign a guy this board says "he didn't want to come back", they play for MONEY they don't care where they play 80% of the time it's a JOB.

 

How can we even judge if he WANTED to come back or not, we traded him while still under contract, the party that definitely didn't want him was Caldwell.

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