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Originally Posted by BrunellFan
You guys are mostly concentrating on his FB position. Dont forget he was a very good special teams guy...
I would match if its not extraordinary.
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BJ may have been a very good special teamer, but you don't take a $2.2 million cap hit for a very good special teamer. BJ was an undrafted free agent, and I'm sure there will be plenty of other undrafted free agents this spring that the Redskins could sign to easily take his place.
Backup fullbacks/special teamers worth a $2.2 million cap hit don't grow on trees... in fact, they don't exist. Backup fullbacks/special teamers were meant to be undrafted free agents making the league minimum. When they start looking for more money than that, you let them go find it, and then you sign yourself another hungry, undrafted free agent and pay him the league minimum to take the other guy's place.
BJ is not Mike Alstott or Jimmy Kleinsasser, nor is he a Mark Kelso or Bill Bates or Brian Mitchell, or any of the other standout special teamers who would have been worth a $2.2 million cap hit. He's done nothing to warrant that kind of attention or money. Let him walk, wish him well, and find yourself another one just like him for a fifth of the price.