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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 604969"><p>Jones did not even play much after the bye. He was essentially the #4 ILB. Whether you want to call that strictly a performance decision, go right ahead. However, if you ignore the cap savings element you're missing a key element in <em>every</em> personnel decision...cost vs. value.</p><p></p><p>If Jones had been serviceable and not made his "whipping boy" gaffes, he would have been cut anyway...the cap savings exceeds the value of "serviceable" #4.</p><p></p><p>As for Hawk, he signed with Cincinnati for 2 years, $3.25 million...the value of that contract was less than the Packers one year cap savings. He's expected to be a backup. He was signed for injury insurance. They might also see value in having him around to play "Burfict whisperer" in the position room. Marvin Lewis knows his way around a defense; you'd be ill advised to question him signing Hawk.</p><p></p><p>With only one ILB (excluding Matthews) on the roster who's ever taken an NFL snap, and with Thompson showing zero interest in bringing in a vet, it would have been prudent to keep Hawk under a similar deal for the precise reasons Cincinnati signed him. Perhaps Thompson cut him because because Hawk refused to renegotiate.</p><p></p><p>There's yet another factor at play. All of the non-core players that you can point to as the primary "goats" from the Seattle game are now gone, Hawk and Jones among them. The expendable demons of the defensive and special teams collapse that otherwise would be haunting the locker room have been exorcised. Or put less delicately, the stink of collapse has been symbolically fumigated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 604969"] Jones did not even play much after the bye. He was essentially the #4 ILB. Whether you want to call that strictly a performance decision, go right ahead. However, if you ignore the cap savings element you're missing a key element in [I]every[/I] personnel decision...cost vs. value. If Jones had been serviceable and not made his "whipping boy" gaffes, he would have been cut anyway...the cap savings exceeds the value of "serviceable" #4. As for Hawk, he signed with Cincinnati for 2 years, $3.25 million...the value of that contract was less than the Packers one year cap savings. He's expected to be a backup. He was signed for injury insurance. They might also see value in having him around to play "Burfict whisperer" in the position room. Marvin Lewis knows his way around a defense; you'd be ill advised to question him signing Hawk. With only one ILB (excluding Matthews) on the roster who's ever taken an NFL snap, and with Thompson showing zero interest in bringing in a vet, it would have been prudent to keep Hawk under a similar deal for the precise reasons Cincinnati signed him. Perhaps Thompson cut him because because Hawk refused to renegotiate. There's yet another factor at play. All of the non-core players that you can point to as the primary "goats" from the Seattle game are now gone, Hawk and Jones among them. The expendable demons of the defensive and special teams collapse that otherwise would be haunting the locker room have been exorcised. Or put less delicately, the stink of collapse has been symbolically fumigated. [/QUOTE]
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