I'm hoping that you're right about keeping both LBs. I am not as optimistic as you are about paying top dollar to both. They always have the option of tagging one of them, so I'm simply hoping that we'll still have 2 more years with them together in a worst case scenario. Either way, it would make us all feel better if they can extend one or the other sometime soon.
I think they are in much, better shape going forward than people realize. If they re sign Hightower they can tag Collins and will have the 3 big defensive free agents locked up until at least 2018. They might lose Sheard but you can't have everything and they will have around 60 million left to make deals with. They generally don't have trouble keeping their own free agents and will that kind of cap room I don't see that being a problem, especially when many of them, e.g...Ninkovich, Branch, Solder.....really don't want to leave., After this season they will have considerable leverage with Amendola to get a new deal done if they want, and can release him and save a decent chunk against the cap at that time. Releasing him now makes no sense at all. As far as the rest go, e.g..Ryan, Harmon, etc....their value will depend upon how they play this season and should be revisited later.
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