It's kind of scary to make wholesale changes on a unit. With that said, he was completely miscast as a 3-4. Again, I'll beat the drum about his football iq.
He's a good 4-3 mike. He's playing 3-4 and being paid as if he's elite. Terrible decision to pay him that cash so I'm glad to see that this regime does not double down.
This ultimately tells me what their young guys agents are telling them. They won't be cheap to re-sign so they can't have a guy like AO on the roster. If they can get a vet for 7 million and provide equal value and on field intangibles while development a replacement on the cheap they have to do it. 3 million cap hit will be essential to keep what is the true young core.
