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

B4YOU said
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".

I mean, that's two contracts. We aren't in this position just due to two contracts. And while the Jordan deal was a mistake, I don't know why you would want to move on from an All-Pro MLB who is also the clear leader of your entire team regardless of how old he is. Truth is that Davis is still playing at a very high level and is still a good deal at his salary. Baun and Ellis were no where close to Davis' level when they left and Baun left because he wanted to be a starter not because we didn't have the money. He's on a really cheap deal in Philly.

But, in the end, it's all about talent evaluation. You can't move on from older players if you don't bring in good young talent to replace them with. For example, they couldn't move on from Jordan because all the young DEs they drafted were misses.

And I'm not saying that Loomis should stay and I think Ireland should go too. I'm just saying that in the one very specific instance with Baun, they didn't do the wrong thing as much as Baun wanted to start and that wasn't going to be available here because he was behind Davis and Werner.