arrellbee
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Real football consideration. Who knew. Thanks for a really good question...... Regardless of how the Samuel question turns out, on the KFFL board a guy asked a great question, and since we don't have much to do right now; it would be a perfect time to ask this speculative question. One that will have a real effect on the team and will test our metal as future NFL GM's
Even at the Pats offer price, you can assume that if Samuel signs with the Pats, it will be a large investment in one player. High enough, I speculate that it would preclude the Pats from re-signing BOTH Warren and Wilfolk. It might even high enough to effect whether we can bring back Stallworth past this season. So here is the question
You have three key player, each playing a key position on your defense. You only have money to re-sign TWO of them. Samuel, Warren, Wilfolk. You are the GM. Who stays, and who goes?????
I won't contaminate the start of this, with my own opinion, because at this moment I don't have one. Convince me which 2 are the right ones to keep.
My crack at it is simple.
If you have less than a top level DL, then to make up for that you have to have at least 4 DBs that have to compensate for the weakness of the DL (not to mention 3 or 4 LBs as well). Considering that CB is a fairly expensive position comparatively, you probably don't even have enough money no matter what to pay premium to 4 DBs. Also, obviously, one top CB doesn't do you much good since the other team can go against the weaker DB positions all day long. Interestingly enough, seems to me we have had a lot of examples where teams tried to upgrade their defense by adding a top CB - and it didn't work worth a darn.
Perhaps something folks don't step back to think about also. A DL has to be be pretty well balanced in strength. If you have a marginal player at one of the positions, that leaves much more opportunity to single team that player and double team the stronger DLs which takes away so much of the power of the DL. So it's even far more of an impact than thinking you are just weakening one position on the DL - you have probably seriously impacted the effectiveness of the whole line.
Another part of the equation - an important part of a really effective CB is run support. But in no way is the CB a controlling part of the run defense. So in addition to the equation of DL versus DBs in pass defense, the DL has a critical contribution to make as far as defending the running game. So a DL has more of an impact on the full game than a CB.
I don't see how a CB could ever get one of PFK's two slots if there are two top DL to chose and, as the proposition is posed by PFK, you only get to pick two.