Trey will always be the one that got away. Just the absolute perfect storm of events transpired for it to occur.
Between the 2017 class all coming up for contracts together, the significant impact COVID had on the salary cap creating about a $25m to $30m negative swing on our obviously uniquely tightly-wound cap management style that relies on projection precision more than most teams, then Trey having a precarious injury history prior to him finally having one great year (his contract year), and us leaning in on the idea that we had a budding superstar in Marcus Davenport to line up across from Cam Jordan for several more years, it just wasn’t meant to be sadly.
Just very unfortunate circumstances. I think we all knew we probably let a good player out of the building at that time, but certainly no one knew we were letting go of some perennial pass rushing phenom that would also suddenly stay completely healthy and available every year.