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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 540337" data-attributes="member: 7277">It's his prerogative to go play in a new system for a new team once he is a free agent.  It's not his prerogative to quit and go through the motions near the end of his contract.   If you're not happy in your system, play your tail off and earn a good deal elsewhere. Raji didn't do that.  The evidence is pretty strong that he began to quit and take plays off as soon as Rodgers went down, and he wasn't able to disengage the single blockers he took on this year, much less eat up double teams. Raji had 39 tackles and 6.5 sacks in the same exact role in 2010.  So what's changed about his role now where he can no longer make such plays?  Yeah, he had Cullen Jenkins then...but he had Mike Daniels now.  The scheme didn't hold BJ Raji back.  BJ Raji held BJ Raji back. He really rolled the dice this year.  He rolled the dice that he could earn a big deal based on his early-career reputation and hope GM's ignore the fact that he was a complete non-factor for an entire season and averaged barely a tackle a game and hasn't offered any interior presence in years.  His next contract will reflect whether or not he's right about that, and he'll have to live with it either way.</blockquote>

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