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cool_hand_luke
I care alot. But I'm interested in the value of the synergy of two close players from the same team. That synergy could be worth the extra two.
Nfl games are won on big plays. If that synergy adds 2 big plays a game it is more than worth a 2nd or a first. I love this cutting edge strategy that they execute. Whether it works or not the process seems sound.
and miss the big picture then little things get overlooked.
1. Fiske, I think, is a better fit to replace Jonah Williams
2. Not only that he's an athletic upgrade
3, synergy as you call it
4. The cost was not that much
5. After Fiske, there were no guys like him left, almost get him or have to end up playing Kobie at DE and rookie at DT
6. A 2nd next year is valued different ways, one is the bottom of the 2nd next year, another I've seen is middle -- so it's really a 3rd by present value
those are just a few possibilities as to why Rams were willing to overpay -- and the amount the overplayed is not that much according to two of the charts and more in one of them.
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