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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 490126">Then there's the other side of the coin. If we go original round tender on EDS, who was undrafted, he can be signed away for no compensation. This is nearly tantamount to making him an unrestricted free agent at a minimum $1.3 million, but with right to match. For about $600,000 in insurance with the 2nd. round tender, we can pretty much guarantee nobody will tender. Again, it depends how you view the player. I see him as an adequate, inexpensive starter; a decent value at a non-impact position. Other teams might see it the same way. Then there's the "opportunity cost", to borrow a term from the investing world, associated with the loss of EDS. Dunno if anybody else has noticed, but EDS and some PS guy are the only guys on this roster with any experience snapping the ball. If EDS departs, you've gone from finding a backup to finding both a starter and a backup. And you'll probably have to go 3rd. round, if not higher, to get a rookie capable of snapping game 1, play 1. In that case you forgo the opportunity to fill another position, and that is a cost. That pick is better spent elsewhere. There are always plenty of forces at work trying to put your back against the wall; you shouldn't do it to yourself to save a few bucks.</blockquote>

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