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The point is that even if they do turn on the jets eventually, we can't keep banking on 3 of the highest paid players on the team to play like crap in the regular season and then all of a sudden start playing well. No, Sammy isn't top 10 in team salaries, but we still kept him around and moved shit. We could have spent that money elsewhere.
If Clark sucks, we don't have many legit options for pass rush left except for random blitzers and Chris Jones. Wharton and Danna are rotation guys and aren't there yet. If we don't have a pass rush, that makes the job more difficult for everybody else on defense. When that happens, the chemistry isn't as good. There's less of a track record for success that the defense can rely on. Even the good players will occasionally slightly hesitate on the field. It also puts more pressure on our offense.
"But the games won't matter until late in the season and into the playoffs..."
Anything can happen in an NFL game. Anything. Just because it's a regular season game doesn't mean we don't need our stars to play well. Because we totally do.
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