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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 550915"><p>The issue is not how a 30 year old guy will play when he's 31 or 32. The issue is Pro Bowl caliber players coming up for 3rd. contracts at that age want 5 year deals. The issue is how they will play in the back half of the deal.</p><p></p><p>Besides, my point, which I thought was obvious, was not that I expect some immediate Nelson decline. It's that the contracts Nelson and Cobb will command, assuming no injuries, would be excessive for the position group. If a guy needs to go it would be the guy least likely to remain productive through the term of the contract and that would be Nelson.</p><p></p><p>It's not that I dislike Nelson as a player, far from it. We'll miss those back shoulder catches and game-changing post plays. But as one poster with a flair for the obvious recently put it, that's the NFL.</p><p></p><p>Actually, 30 years old...8 years of pounding...is quite old for a running back. The ones who get big 3rd. contracts include approximately nobody.</p><p></p><p>I would have thought the "not" following the New England comment would have been a clue that I do not endorse the New England approach.</p><p></p><p>Except for the brief Moss period, the Brady years have not been wideout-centric. On the other hand, the Rodgers offenses have been wideout-centric; one should think the big play might just be in his DNA. I don't believe Rodgers frequent blindness to the open TEs and RBs he bypasses underneath, or that his one technical weakness, touch on screens and dump offs, are some ephemeral accidents that should be "fixed". The history of reloading the wideout core competency (Driver out/Nelson in, Jennings out/Cobb in, Jones out/Boykin in) while being cost effective should continue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 550915"] The issue is not how a 30 year old guy will play when he's 31 or 32. The issue is Pro Bowl caliber players coming up for 3rd. contracts at that age want 5 year deals. The issue is how they will play in the back half of the deal. Besides, my point, which I thought was obvious, was not that I expect some immediate Nelson decline. It's that the contracts Nelson and Cobb will command, assuming no injuries, would be excessive for the position group. If a guy needs to go it would be the guy least likely to remain productive through the term of the contract and that would be Nelson. It's not that I dislike Nelson as a player, far from it. We'll miss those back shoulder catches and game-changing post plays. But as one poster with a flair for the obvious recently put it, that's the NFL. Actually, 30 years old...8 years of pounding...is quite old for a running back. The ones who get big 3rd. contracts include approximately nobody. I would have thought the "not" following the New England comment would have been a clue that I do not endorse the New England approach. Except for the brief Moss period, the Brady years have not been wideout-centric. On the other hand, the Rodgers offenses have been wideout-centric; one should think the big play might just be in his DNA. I don't believe Rodgers frequent blindness to the open TEs and RBs he bypasses underneath, or that his one technical weakness, touch on screens and dump offs, are some ephemeral accidents that should be "fixed". The history of reloading the wideout core competency (Driver out/Nelson in, Jennings out/Cobb in, Jones out/Boykin in) while being cost effective should continue. [/QUOTE]
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