(06-02-2022, 04:35 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(06-01-2022, 08:25 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: lol, was you not around during FA?  There were alot of people hated what we gave Kirk.  But when you sign a player you sign him for what you think he will do not what he has already done.  When Yawn lands on a team that team cant get rid of him fast enough lol.  In thinkful we didnt set the DE market with him and give him an open check book like you think we should of done.  The offer that was report was much more than he has ever got per year.  He got the worst advice from his agent that can remember and he will likely regret that decision as long as he lives and especially when he retires.  He lost around 40 mil for not taking a contract that a team was willing to overpay more than he was worth.  Its comical you always blame the team for losing him when we offered him way more than he was worth.  The reason we have been so bad since losing them is because we had Dave Caldwell, one of the worst GMs in recent memory and then brought in the worst HC of All Time, not because we Yannick and Ms. Ramsey. 30 other GMs could of built the core on this team with the picks we have had over the last 3 or 4 years.

This board has a neat little feature where it can keep posts over a period of time.

Here is a link to a thread YOU created talking about the Kirk signing.

https://www.duvalpride.com/showthread.ph...pid1456191

You are correct in asserting some posters hated the Kirk contract.

Interestingly, neither you, Mikey nor Yoda-the guys in this thread objecting to Ngakoue's asking price-were among them.

If he does nothing special, Kirk will make $2 million a year less than what Yan asked for.  If he maxes out his deal, he'll make a million a year more than Ngakoue's asking price.

All for a guy who never made a Pro bowl, never eclipsed 1000 yards in a season, and was never more than a 3rd option.

slow your damn roll, Bullseye. Never have I taken umbrage here to what we offered, what he demanded, or that losing him was a net negative to our on-field performance.

Everything I've said was that if we were looking to replicate his specific lost performance, we can find it through other guys not named Yannick Ngakoue, and more than likely those guys would come cheaper (either financially or through locker room chemistry/lack of distractions) than had we opted to give things a second go with Yan.

Why are you so enamored with this one dude? He was here for a minute, he was no legend, move on already. I tried to let this thread die, a guy on his fourth team since he was here ain't worth this much attention. But if you want to drag me back in, I'll come back swinging.

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