12thManNorth
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Maxwell has made it pretty obviously he wants to get paid. Nobody here can blame him for that.
I think we saw in these playoffs just how much better our D is when he's outside, instead of Simon or whoever else. It's pretty easy to see that you can have 10 amazing players on D, but if one CB is a liability (especially when the other is Sherm and our D doesn't flip corners), it isn't that hard to move the ball against you. Carolina did it all game, and NE had 4 TD drives themselves. I don't wanna give up on Simon, but having him out there as a starter for 16 games is scary, and that's not even considering his lack of ability to stay healthy. Burley doesn't cut it out there, and while Lane isn't bad, we're better off having him as a slot CB and for depth.
A month ago I'd say that Maxwell is gone 100% as Simon was not too bad in the regular season, but after these playoffs I'm not totally convinced that PCJS won't try to make some moves in order to free up the cash to retain him. That may mean making a tough decision on cutting a vet that many will disagree with.
I think we've shown that if we have our D intact and have Russ + Beast, we can put in pretty much whatever pieces we want on offence and still be one of the best teams in the NFL
Thoughts ?
I think we saw in these playoffs just how much better our D is when he's outside, instead of Simon or whoever else. It's pretty easy to see that you can have 10 amazing players on D, but if one CB is a liability (especially when the other is Sherm and our D doesn't flip corners), it isn't that hard to move the ball against you. Carolina did it all game, and NE had 4 TD drives themselves. I don't wanna give up on Simon, but having him out there as a starter for 16 games is scary, and that's not even considering his lack of ability to stay healthy. Burley doesn't cut it out there, and while Lane isn't bad, we're better off having him as a slot CB and for depth.
A month ago I'd say that Maxwell is gone 100% as Simon was not too bad in the regular season, but after these playoffs I'm not totally convinced that PCJS won't try to make some moves in order to free up the cash to retain him. That may mean making a tough decision on cutting a vet that many will disagree with.
I think we've shown that if we have our D intact and have Russ + Beast, we can put in pretty much whatever pieces we want on offence and still be one of the best teams in the NFL
Thoughts ?