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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 545576" data-attributes="member: 7277">Here is the main issue I have with this:  Say Raji actually blows up next year and returns to 2010 form.  How are you going to put your $8M multi-year offer back out there?  You know he's got a questionable work ethic.  You know if he breaks the bank he's likely to get satisfied and content.  You know the minute he gets frustrated he's going to loaf.  So how can you ever commit a long-term deal to the guy?  You can't.  You gotta go 1 and hope he's looking to break the bank next year and actually perform.  The other thing I don't like is that every year we hear about how we just need more talent on defense, the coaching is fine.  Last year it was Brad Jones.  Two years before that it was Hawk -- his original contract was 5 years and $33.75M!  Now we're going to do the same, albeit on a short-term deal, with Raji, who was arguably our worst player on a bad defense last year.  So we continue to commit to the same blah, mediocre core on defense that we've had, and we wonder why our defense never seems to improve from year to year.</blockquote>

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