was the jared allen trade a failure?

[rippadonn]

Jared is actually not playing bad at all. I still like him as a player. 

Ealy and Allen were a better combo and because of crying and contracts they went away from what was working well.

CJ is not making plays

[Wolfpredator]

It would be a failure if we traded for a 3rd round pick and we were the ones who had to pay his contract...as it turns out, we didn't and we are not.  At the moment, we are paying him peanuts.  A fail?  No  A good value?  Ehh.  A success? No

[Fox007]

CJ is the biggest waste of a uniform at the moment but lucky for us DG won't put up with that nor his contract sooo yea fug that he's gone and I couldn't care less anymore...last of the Big stupid Hurney contracts and it really shows now why they loved Hurney...doods get fat checks for fugin no production...job security when they should be canned...I'd love the man who did that for me too...

Trouble is even if we draft a DE this year he would be hard pressed to make a huge impact where we will be drafting and we don't have too many down the pipe...just hope Ealy pops next year? FA?

[LinvilleGorge]

The entire DE rotation probably needs to be revamped.  Less CJ and Allen, more of the younger guys.  Maybe we'll end up getting more out of the past their prime vets if we reduce their snap counts.  I'm not saying to completely bury them on the bench, but they should see less reps.  Well, maybe we should bury CJ.  The DL was playing much better when he was on IR.

[Ruff]

Rivera: "we really need to give guys like Allen less snaps so they have fresh legs"

Also Rivera: *proceeds to play Allen 100% of defensive snaps*

[tondi]

I really thought his role would be as a situational pass rusher.  Maybe get 20-30 snaps a game.  However, he has turned into an every down player who seems to never come out and, at his age, that seems like a mistake, especially when you look at his production.

[GoobyPls]

I never really had high expectation for him to begin with, I want Delaire and Ealy to get more snaps