Zack Baun: Top Graded LB / DPOTW [Why Baun Isn’t Still a Saint Thread]

St. Widge said
No doubt we should have moved on from Jordan, but Davis was still playing like one of the top MLBs in the NFL and he's still playing at a very high level so I can see why it would have been hard to move on from him. Can you imagine the outrage had they let Davis go and said that Baun or Ellis was going to be the starting MLB?

I mean I like adding young talent, but you also have to have some veteran guys around to establish the standard you want to set and Demario is really both establishing the standard in the locker room and doing it on the field.

The mistake was not managing the cap in a way that allows rebuilding and going young/cheap. Both guys are 35yo which is the wall for any position besides QB and K/P. Jordan will cost 20M in dead money while Davis will likely be 13M. We have to restructure to get under the cap every year and tie ourselves to players at prices that don't match. Jordan is not a 13M/yr DE this year or last year. Davis has a cap number of 12.5M next year because we added a 12M extension for 2025 when he is 36yo. These are overpriced contracts by a GM who dug himself in a hole. I'm not sure Pete Warner even lives up to his 7.5M/yr contract based on his play.

Bad contracts, poor talent evaluation, reluctance to either draft to scheme or scheme to players.......these are whole organization problems.

If DA is "keep chopping wood", then Loomis should be "keep digging the hole".