Post by riczaj01 on Mar 2, 2020 8:19:04 GMT -6
Nick is a guy they should have tried to extend last year, or a guy that you never let hit FA. What others are willing to pay for something doesn't mean it's a good price, or the right price for your team.
Nick is perfectly servicable, but he's not great, but he can be replaced. Sign him last year I'd be happy, get him extended before FA this year I'd be happy, let him hit FA and have his market inflated, let him walk and draft a guy. Really should have already had someone on the team to fit that role in a perfect scenerio.
I like Nick, but like you said about Dalton, he's oatmeal. You don't pay top price for oatmeal, even if someone else is.
B) Nick has been a backup and STer pretty much his entire career with the Bears thus far. He's been the #3 guy off the bench and a spot starter due to injury when it comes to defense. How many players in that role do you see get contract extensions after their 3rd year?
Answer: virtually none. Those situations occur when a player has been a starter and standout for 3 years (i.e., Eddie Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, etc). The Bears did NOT extend Kyle Fuller, a former 1st round pick, after his 3rd year because he was injured. They waited for him to prove himself in his 4th, which he did.
Nick K got a chance to play a fair bit last season, his 4th, and he played really well. So he deserves to be paid. And someone will pay him if the Bears don't.
C) Who exactly do you want to replace him with? At what cost??
D) The market price is a good price unless you have an equivalent player ready to step in for less. The Bears don't. Iggy hasn't shown a thing so far. KPL is older and is also a FA. A draft pick, very likely a late draft pick, isn't going to step into a starting role right out of the box.
Yeah if some team offers him $15m or something crazy than that's a different story and I wouldn't match, That's not gonna happen. For the realistic price he's likely to command in the market, he's a good re-sign for the Bears.
Nick K is exactly what you hope for in a day-3 draft pick--a guy that carves out a role on STs and as a backup and then shows you he's capable of starting at his position. The whole point of drafting players is that you hope they prove themselves worthy of keeping.
B) No idea, don't follow other teams bench players, do you? Still the guy that is the primary backup to the starters probably is worth keeping around on low end contracts.
C) who do you replace him with? Any # of the 3-4 ILBs that will be entering FA and/or the draft. You keep acting like its impossible to replace average players, it's not. www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/ufa/inside-linebacker/available/ now not all these guys are going to hit the market, not all are 3-4 ilbs, but it's a good place to start.
D) just going to have to disagree on this one. Market price can be a good price, or it can be a terrible price. If there are a lot of teams looking at that player, his price becomes inflated regardless of talent lvl. Briggs is a good example, rarely had a huge market so the Bears got him at "market price" which was well below his actual value, same w/Forte. Orlando Pace, Jared Allen were not good prices even though they were "market value"
But it's the "market value" and you have to pay what the market says he's worth right? See we are on the same page, just different paragraphs. Nick for the Bears has a market value that might not be the market value for Nick and another team. When you have multiple teams bidding it only takes one that is either really stubborn on wanting that player, or really dumb(or both) to make that market value artificially inflated and not the real market value. Its why their agents work news agencies w/"anon" sources saying where and how much the interest is.