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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Is it though?
Because upgrading the JAGS in a significant manner means a mid to high first round pick, or a LOT of money in free agency. We have neither.
I'm not necessarily saying we should move him; but I'm not sure we can significantly improve because of available draft capital and cap resources.
I love Jones, I think he's great. But does what it takes to keep him preclude us from getting the better players we need?
It's like with Hill. We had Hill and a bunch of JAGS. We're better with a better GROUP. Maybe it's the same thing with Jones and the DL. He should be a force multiplier, but he's really not.
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He is a force multiplier, but the force he's multiplying is like 1.1.
Multiply it by 4 and you're still only at 4.4.
Now change the N to even 1.5 and even if your force multiplier is only by 3, you're still at 4.5.
In any given week he's starting alongside 3 bench/rotational players. He doesn't have a single starting caliber player on that DL with him. And maybe you're right - maybe we have a blind spot in our scouting that will prevent us from getting 1 or 2 of those at a reasonable investment. So maybe we do need to move him.
But I'd like to at least TRY to build around him first. We him for another year and could potentially tag/trade him after the season. I just hate how little effort we put into improving the talent around him.