Basis4day":2d8ivif9 said:
A-Dog":2d8ivif9 said:
Those same things applied to the Percy Harvin trade and that didn't stop them
And not the most convincing example to do something like that again
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It's convincing to me, because we gave up essentially the same thing in terms of draft picks, made him the 3rd highest paid receiver in the game, he barely played, he disrupted the locker room, and we still made it to two Superbowls. In other words, we survived pretty much the worst possible outcome that could have resulted from that trade. Not only survived, but thrived.
Houston has none of the baggage that Harvin does. By all accounts he is a team player and great in the locker room. He is one of the hardest workers on the team. He's 26 and has improved every year. Sure, he's in a bit of a contract dispute, but Walter Jones was did the same thing for most of his career, so I don't consider that a negative. And yes, his draft stock suffered because he smoked MJ and failed a drug test, but there haven't been any dings since.
In terms of body type, athleticism, and skillset, he is the ideal Leo:
6-3, 258 LBS, 34.5" arms, and a SPARQ freak, scoring 4th highest of all time, above players like Clay Mathews and Robert Quinn, and just below players like Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware. It should be noted that he tested at 270 in the combine and has dropped 12 pounds since, according to his listed weight.
Point being, Harvin was a reach in many ways - health, team-fit, positional-fit. His talent was Houston-like but his fit was just the opposite. If the risk on Harvin was a 9 on a scale of 1-10, the risk on Houston is more like a 3.
massari":2d8ivif9 said:
No one player outside of an elite QB is worth that much against the salary cap.
Richard Sherman's cap numbers for the next two years are $12.2M and $14.8M. Is he worth it?
In terms of age, talent, and positional importance, they are pretty much equals.