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Originally Posted by SunnySide
No guard is worth more than 10M AAV or a top 10 draft pick .. in my opinion. You can find plug and play guards in FA. Each year we seem to find good IOL production at a good value.
2019 FA - Ereck Flowers
2020 FA - Wes Schweitzer
Im fine with tagging or signing Scherff, hes a good player, probably in the top 10 of Gs .. but giving any guard 14-15M per is not an ideal situation.
if im giving 15M or more .. its for a QB, LT, WR, CB, pass rusher. Thats it.
15M on a 185M cap = 12.33% of your entire cap. For a guard. For a guard that needs to just stick their fat short arms out there and grab some shoulder pads and anchor for 2.3 seconds.
Sign LT Villanueva or somebody for 15M per. At least LT have much more job responsibilities than a guard.
A guard is basically a chair. An obstacle. Just stand there and try not to get pushed back to much for 2.3 seconds. Can you manage that fat boy? God forbid we ask them to chip a guy or something.
yeah .. we need to spend 15M on the rare occasion one of our fat guards needs to have enough awareness to chip a guy before locking onto his main assignment. His main assignment usually the other teams fat unathletic player lined up directly across from him.
besides the run game sucked this year and every year. its not like we are opening running lanes or turning guys or getting push off the snap.
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I agree with him here. Scherff is a great guard, however his availability is a concern for someone you're going to give 12% of your salary cap too. Give him 13 mil for for 5 or 6 years and lets move on...if he won't take it, tag him and let him explore his options.