Check your facts, my friend.
Joke Jacobs is getting $12M per season. That’s terrible value. Jacobs is obviously not four times better than Hall and Allen combined.
Let’s try to think it through logically - - where do you suppose that $8M salary difference between Jacobs and Hall/Allen come from? Here’s a hint, it means other positions have to be sacrificed with lesser talent. And if Jacobs gets hurt, who’s behind him? That’s $12M sitting on the bench. Absolutely NOT value.
Josh Jacobs got $12.5M guaranteed. His cap hit this year is $5.3M. They'll restructure it, and his cap hit won't be high. $12M isn't going to sit on the bench.
And Aaron Jones? Pollard, Montgomery, Singletary.
Getting a FA running back who is good is cheap. There isn't value in having a good, non-Barkley/CMC running back. Because anyone can pick them up.
Or how about some day 2 / early day 3 draft picks in recent years?
Rhamondre Stevenson
Chuba Hubbard
Brian Robinson
Kenneth Walker
Bucky Irving
Kyren Williams
You want a good RB? Spend a cheap pick on him.
Where is the value in having running backs, when you can reload your running back room with a cheap FA and a cheap draft pick?
How is a good, not gamebreaking running back room and incentive for the best OCs in the game to eye the Jets as their future head coach position?
Hell, if you wanted a gamebreaking running back, any team could have thrown around $13M per year on Barkley this offseason. Barkley, a top 3 back in the league who's good for around 100 yards from scrimmage per game, got $12.5M per year, with $26M guaranteed.
If you don't know about the issue of supply and demand with good running backs in the NFL in 2024, I'm not sure I can help you there.
Breece Hall's contract, that great value you keep spouting, also runs through next year. Then you're either re-signing him, and that great value is gone, or you're letting him walk. So the great value, which doesn't exist, doesn't exist even more in the head coach's second season.