Well shit. This is not what I wanted to hear. If accurate, its a $16m AAV deal which doesn't seem outrageous to me for a rising young DT. Easily could have outbid that.
Really not understanding what Ryan Poles is thinking right now. If he thinks Justin Jones and Amon Watts are good enough starters going forward, I won't be defending him much longer.
That's how I would describe it too. He's another Muhammed type signing that hopefully works out better. Nothing wrong with that but this is hardly a big upgrade, foundational anchor piece that Dre'Mont Jones would have been.
And wow, 16 of the 21 million is guaranteed? No easy out there.
It's kind of like going to a nice art gallery with money to spend and end up taking home Dogs Playing Poker.
It's kind of like going to a nice art gallery with money to spend and end up taking home Dogs Playing Poker.
I know. But maybe we are watching the guy painting a picture and we simply don't know what the final painting will look like... not yet anyway. My gut feeling is that Poles/Cunningham have a solid plan to unfold and we're just getting a glimpse of the beginning.
And I remind myself that not everything will get perfectly upgraded in 2023. Some of this rebuild will be addressed in '24. We've all talked about that. Could be an incremental upgrade at some positions for now.