Hassan Reddick/Justin Houston

[PootieNunu]

40 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

Perspective is a hell of a thing. 

Riddick was nothing but a rental.  Somewhere you missed that memo. 

Our front offense wasn't going to pay him when he was never a corner stone of this defense. 

Burns is so much more than just a pass rusher, but that all many want to focus on as he's going to get fair market value for his position,  production,  and leadership on this team. 

Burns is literally just a pass rusher. You can site his leadership, but his main on field contribution is pass rushing. 

I know Reddick was a one year rental, but lets not lie about why he wasnt retained. He is on a 3 year 45m contract and we are going to give Burns something like 5 years 140m.

Edited August 7, 2023 by PootieNunu

[pantherclaw]

1 hour ago, PootieNunu said:

Burns is literally just a pass rusher. You can site his leadership, but his main on field contribution is pass rushing. 

I know Reddick was a one year rental, but lets not lie about why he wasnt retained. He is on a 3 year 45m contract and we are going to give Burns something like 5 years 140m.

You obviously don't value Burns as the team does. 

[Swaggasaurus]

4 hours ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

Nobody anywhere in this thread said they didn’t want him. They simply explained why it was unrealistic we could have retained him. Stop with the dramatics. 

I’ll say it. You can’t bookend a defense with Reddick and Burns. Both of those guys get washed out too easy. You can never have enough good pass rushers, but you have to be able to stop the run. We could not consistently set the edge and maintain gap integrity with those two playing at the same time, it failed.

[PootieNunu]

47 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

You obviously don't value Burns as the team does. 

I dont value him at 100m more than Reddick, no.

[pantherclaw]

1 hour ago, PootieNunu said:

I dont value him at 100m more than Reddick, no.

It's simple NFL economics.  You don't have to agree with it. It just is what it is. 

[Thorrez]

Switching to the other side of the headline, does anyone know what the "problem" with Houston is?

I mean his sack totals alone suggests he was an elite pass rusher, yet the contacts he was given and the fact that a lot of teams were willing to move on from him tells a different story. And I have never heard him talked about as real elite.

Has he been on anyone's secondary team so you know more?