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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 489211" data-attributes="member: 4300">That’s a nice quote from Dom but with all due respect to Dom, Ted, and Mike, there is no disguising Hawk’s lack of impact plays and his failure to live up to his draft status and current contract.  Hawk just completed his 7th NFL season. According to nfl.com: He’s played in 110 regular season games and started all but 3 of ‘em. (He’s only completely missed 2 games in 2011.) He has 500 tackles and assisted on 214 tackles. He has 13.5 sacks, 8 INTs, 26 passes defensed and 2 forced fumbles. That is not the stat line you’re hoping for when you pick a player #5 overall to play LB, or for a player who cashed an $8M bonus check two years ago and is averaging $6.75M over 5 years.  McGinn notes he played lighter this year and improved in coverage. He had a career high 5.5 tackles for loss but that stat contains criticism of his previous seasons. McGinn writes: He’s steady. He’s smart. He’s dependable. He’s durable. But those are not the adjectives you’re hoping for when you spend that much capital on a player. That’s what you’re hoping for from a middle-round pick making a couple million per year. I don’t expect Hawk to be approached about taking a pay cut, but I hope he is. </blockquote>

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