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Originally Posted by ChiefoftheKeyboard
Ya, but cutting houston only saves $14M while tagging Ford will prob cost 15 or 16M. Houston has really only had that one ACL and had the chiefs not rushed him back he wouldn't have re-tore it and missed more time. Houston is more likely to play a full season since Ford has only had one full season. Plus houston is more well rounded as far as amount of pass rush moves and stopping the run.
The other advantage to keeping houston on his current contract is that we have an out each year. If we sign ford long term it could end up like berry's contract. I say tag and trade him while his value is peaked.
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Justin Houston is payed like he's the best defensive player in the league. No one can argue to me that he is still worth that deal. This team has a bunch of overpaid dudes on defense, go look at the cap numbers this defense is paid like it's top 10.
Personally I think it'd be good if they just moved on from the aging injury prone older players at this point. Berry and Houston have literally played in something stupid like 35 out of 100 possible games together. That isn't accurate but it's something like that.