OT: 2024 Washington Commanders thread: change we can believe in!

[kicksavedave]

As someone who loves the draft more than most, I will be super content if we have a boring draft because we gave up assets to get MG.

I wouldn’t be and I’m not advocating a return to the Snyder days of signing Prime, Fat Albert, Archuletta, Landon Collins, etc just because they’re the big names available that year and we want to sell jerseys. Trading for a monster edge rusher fills the team’s biggest need and will improve other players on the defense. The defense is instantly transformed with Garrett. Garrett is the kind of guy you accelerate timelines and sacrifice premium assets for.

Think about it this way — if we trade for Garrett, we arguably have the best offensive and defensive player in the Conference. Jayden might already be the best offensive player in the NFC and MG would be the best defensive player. You win games with elite, game-breaking talent at the most important positions and we’d have two of the best at the two most important spots on the field. It’s a no brainer.

I understand all this, but Garrett, at 29 (will be 30 before the next playoffs begin) has put up these enormous numbers already, and its not guaranteed he will continue this pace as he enters his 30s. We might just be trading for past performance instead of future results. I might be more excited about trying to land Micah Parsons over here in free agency.

In the end, if AP decides to trade for MG or Hendrickson, I'll be fine with it. I just think we're in a longer game than "win now" mode, selling the future for instant returns.

 

[Jags]

In the end, if AP decides to trade for MG or Hendrickson, I'll be fine with it. I just think we're in a longer game than "win now" mode, selling the future for instant returns.

I hear you, but doesn't that boil down to what MG wants? What if he's okay riding out his current deal? He can't stop saying that it's not about the money...

My point is that if we're not locked in to a bad contract for an aging, declining player, maybe all we're doing is paying what his last few productive years are worth. Doesn't have to be an albatross contract, and if that kind of deal is privately what MG is really looking for, then I trust AP will find that out and not trade for him.

Trusting our front office to recognize the confluence of events is something I think we can all get behind. If there's impact edge in FA or at our spots in the draft, great. Let's maybe do that instead. But MG seems like a real character guy and he's been remarkably healthy. If he means what he's been saying, there's a chance we'd be trading for a true monster for the next 2+ years, and it's not like an impact DE can't keep going a little while longer than that. He wouldn't be the first.

 

[RedRocking]

I hear you, but doesn't that boil down to what MG wants? What if he's okay riding out his current deal? He can't stop saying that it's not about the money...

My point is that if we're not locked in to a bad contract for an aging, declining player, maybe all we're doing is paying what his last few productive years are worth. Doesn't have to be an albatross contract, and if that kind of deal is privately what MG is really looking for, then I trust AP will find that out and not trade for him.

Trusting our front office to recognize the confluence of events is something I think we can all get behind. If there's impact edge in FA or at our spots in the draft, great. Let's maybe do that instead. But MG seems like a real character guy and he's been remarkably healthy. If he means what he's been saying, there's a chance we'd be trading for a true monster for the next 2+ years, and it's not like an impact DE can't keep going a little while longer than that. He wouldn't be the first.

He’s out of guaranteed money on his contract. He’s definitely going to want a new extension that likely makes him the highest paid defensive player in the league. Which is fine, he’s earned it.

But, there’s a reason this trade request is happening now. He might want to win a SB more than getting paid (like he’s saying), but I imagine he also wants one last big pay day.

 

[Jags]

He might want to win a SB more than getting paid (like he’s saying), but I imagine he also wants one last big pay day.

Totally agree. Just not sure it has to be a killer of a deal that has us bound to a crippling hit years on, beyond his ability to earn it. Big money, shorter term, guaranteed? Absolutely, no problem. On the hook for big money when he's 35? Not so much.