It might just very well be in our best interest to stay at 3 & draft our own.Josh Allen reminds me of Julian peterson
As predicted in one of the free agency threads months ago Lawrence gets his $20M/year. Thankfully we have a shot to get our own edge beast in Bosa or Allen.
He seems deserving of it. I'm just glad that NFL players are getting larger amounts guaranteed in their contracts. As the major sport in the US, it is shocking how little power the players have in contracts compared to other sports. MLB takes care of their players for life, NBA superstars literally control who signs where. In the NFL, they have so little power.
The sports are so different you can’t compare the way the players are paid.the nba has such a small roster and is the most influenced by having at least one star player MLB has control of the players for so long before they are free agents that it keeps the salaries down for the younger players , letting them pay the stars . Couple that with the risk of injuries in those sports compared to football along with the roster size of a football team and it’s really unfair to compare them.
I thought there was a slim chance he'd hit the open market, but knew that was wishful thinking. We have a chance to land our own pass rusher who will be cheap for the next 4+ years.
He will be a lot slower off the mark being weighed down by all those money bags or is that only when the Jets hand that cash over.
to be fair quite a few of them did hit the market. ansah is still out there as far as i know, ford was traded, houston was released and went to indy, smith changed teams, barr hit the market but ultimately went back to minn, flowers hit the market, wake hit the market, vernon got traded. so yeah basically 7 legit pass rushers changed teams this offseason (5 via FA and 2 via trade) plsu barr who hit the market for a little bit and fowler IIRC was on the open market but went back to LA. ansah is still there, shane ray is still there. we just didn't get one personally and to be fair the fact this draft has 5 of them in the top 16 players plus a 6th 1st round edge prospect also was the cause of that. why spend 100 million on a 30 eyar odl oft injured rusher like ansah when we can get a cheap 22 year old one in the draft? personally I wanted mac to get one so we could trade back and focus on the o-line but i think mac played this well and we are better off in the long run with a bosa or allen and can worry about improving the o-line more next offseason. next years draft is pretty good for OT too. should be 2 taken in the top 10 and 4 in the 1st round plus a C and G. easily 6 1st round o-lineman 5 of which would be a good position for us and a good amonut of free agent tackles as well
If we are being honest we had a legit shot at one could be pass rusher and he got cold feet. All the rest were either not really in play or the second tier of talent. Not the a great pass rushing free agent class people were going in about in January.
