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Originally Posted by Flaxwless

We play to win a championship, but unless you are an RB away from contention LT is a bigger burden than help. Why? So your team sucks and you blow your wad signing LT... your team will either become mediocre or is an LT injury away from sucking once again.

Look what type of team it took to win with LT last year?

Tom Brady

LT

Chad Johnson
Reggie Wayne
Plaxico Burress
Wes Welker

Kellen Winslow

That's still a whole shitload of studs surrounding LT. If you're a bad team #1) you don't have that many studs #2) if you signed'd LT as it seems now you'll be blowing half your cap on him, so you won't be able to amass more talent around LT.

Sure LT will improve your team... to a mediocre team. His salary hinders your ability to sign FA and make trades. You sign LT he either stays on your team or gets put on IR/gets cut b/c it would be tough to trade 7k to a championship contender or team making a playoff push and bad teams would shy away b/c why rent a player?

Basically he ruins your flexibility when as a rebuilding team, that's the most important thing: flexibility.

If I were a rebuilding team... I would go after RFA/UFA players that are probably the middle tier guys or people you feel will outperform their salary.... not guys that will underperform their salary.

That way during the course of the season you have possible trading piece (middle tier guy) or a value player that you can build around.

Then once you acquire enough value players, that's when you overspend on a big puppy like LT.

That's what I would do.

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