U Kant win them all, and judging by the amount of money they offered him, he must be a good 3-4 NT..
Then Brad Jones must also be a good ILB, and Morgan Burnett must have been a good safety last year...Also, he hasn't been playing NT. He's been playing end. He hasn't played NT regularly since 2011.
Ted Thompson knows more about Raji than we do..
Yes, true...and I trust, and certainly hope, that he'll make the right decision.
The heart of a 3-4 defense is the NT and the OLB...
This isn't true so much as it used to be. Even though we're a "3-4" base, we're more often in nickel and dime packages.
Him being offered 8 mil means that he's a very valuable player..
That's a very dangerous assumption to make. Albert Haynesworth was offered well over $8M a season, among many other players who never lived up to it. GM's do make mistakes from time to time, even the best ones.
The goal is to keep ur best players.. Not let them go..
No, the goal is to win the Super Bowl by putting together a winning team as efficiently as possible, not overpay role players based on name recognition.. If Raji is one of our "best" players, why was the run defense so awful last year?
Him getting the offer suggests that he is one of the better 3-4 NT's in the nfl..
No, it doesn't. The stats don't back that up, the eye test doesn't back it up, and even scouts and former GM's alike are saying Raji is "just a guy" which the Packers seem to have finally understood. Also, again, Raji plays mostly DE. The fact that you seem to be unaware of this is a pretty good indication that you didn't pay much attention to how awful he really was last season, no offense.
It indicates that you're probably someone who has always liked Raji, feels inclined to defend him, and trusts the old mainstream reputations on him and assume they all still hold true, but haven't really paid much attention to him at all.