Football Schefter: Jalen Ramsey has asked for a trade - Page 399

Originally Posted by htismaqe:
The Chiefs don't need Ramsey to win a championship.

Don't need him, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
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Originally Posted by O.city:
As a fan, it's better for us for it to be this way. Otherwise, it's the NBA.

To be real with you, how would a regular person respond to a job telling them they weren't allowed to leave if they were unhappy there?
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Originally Posted by Halfcan:
When will the Jags draw the line with this guy?

At the very least he should have been fined for the dustup with his coach and then slamming the entire organization on national tv in a profanity-laced rant.

No one player is bigger than the entire team.

Shut up nerd
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Originally Posted by Mecca:
The problem though is he hates Tom Coughlin who they brought back because well they had sucked since he left...

I also think part of what may have him annoyed is, they can't pay all those guys, they have cap issues and more guys than just him who want to be paid after giving a backup QB a huge contract.

Jacksonville is years away from competing.

How do they get closer to competing by trading away one of the best players in the league who's 24 years old though?
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Originally Posted by htismaqe:
The Chiefs don't need Ramsey to win a championship.

But the odds of us winning it go waaaayyyyy up with him here than not, period.
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Originally Posted by O.city:
How do they get closer to competing by trading away one of the best players in the league who's 24 years old though?

At some point it becomes detrimental to the team to have him on your roster.
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Originally Posted by O.city:
As a fan, it's better for us for it to be this way. Otherwise, it's the NBA.

The NBA probably has the most enthusiastic and engaged fanbase of any major American sports league right now
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Originally Posted by Mecca:
To be real with you, how would a regular person respond to a job telling them they weren't allowed to leave if they were unhappy there?

This isn't a regular job though, so that doesn't work.

If you want to let players leave and force their way around like they do in the NBA, fine. But we might want to realize we cheer for a pretty small market team and it'll burn us at some point before we do.
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Originally Posted by carcosa:
The NBA probably has the most enthusiastic and engaged fanbase of any major American sports league right now

No, they don't.

It's tiny. The NFL dwarfs it and it's not even close.

The NFL has a bigger fanbase and audience than the NBA and MLB combined.
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Originally Posted by O.city:
How do they get closer to competing by trading away one of the best players in the league who's 24 years old though?

They are 10 million dollars over the cap for next year...

That doesn't factor in paying Ramsey or Ngakoue who both want huge money, so basically they will have to cut Dareus and probably Bouye.

So either way they are getting worse.
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Originally Posted by Mecca:
They are 10 million dollars over the cap for next year...

That doesn't factor in paying Ramsey or Ngakoue who both want huge money, so basically they will have to cut Dareus and probably Bouye.

So either way they are getting worse.

Ok, but cutting those two would be more beneficial than the young 2 elite players, no?
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I heard his washing machine broke and the repairman is coming between 9 and 4 tomorrow, so once again, no practice.
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The Jaguars are a great case study for how to not build a team...

Trade for and pay a backup QB a big contract
Use top 10 draft choice on a RB
Give a huge contract to a guard in FA who has since sucked
Give aging DL in Campbell who is still good, a huge deal
Sign your MLB to an extension..

All this leads to them losing the most important young players a CB and DE along with Dareus who is much younger than Campbell.
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I didn't say it would work. I just said that's probably what Khan is telling him right now. They don't seem eager to trade him, do they?
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Originally Posted by O.city:
Ok, but cutting those two would be more beneficial than the young 2 elite players, no?

The thing is, it doesn't matter what they do, they won't get better. I can see why a player would be frustrated with it.

They have a ton of money locked into blah players and they will actually get worse next year even if they keep Ramsey.
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