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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 794817" data-attributes="member: 10441">They aren't ignoring it.  They made big investments and unfortunately they haven't been paying off.  It happens.  to everyone sometimes.  and when you make big investments, there comes a time when you just have to live with it.  The salary cap demands that you do.  There is no getting around it.  i think perry has a motivation problem or an injury one.  Matthews was pretty good, had some injury issues, and now is just ok, not elite like we need, but ok.  but he's past his prime and it isn't going to get better.  they didn't ignore the safety position.  They drafted Haha in the 1st round.  he played well, fell off some, but everyone round him was hurt and rotating too, so they gave him some time to show he was better.  he's showing to be decent is about all.  and still with Aaron Jones.  Injured last year after being "the back" for only a couple weeks.  injured again at the end of the year.  missed a month of training camp because of injury.  Came back for 1 week and then was away serving a 2 week suspension and everyone thinks he should be our bell cow.  He's an explosive runner.  There's also reasons he's not the everydown back or even the most of the downs back right now.  His workload might grow in the later part of the season, but I don't think he's ever going to be what people think he could be.</blockquote>

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