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Originally Posted by RunKC
Yeah the Lions don't have to pay any of their star players except St Brown soon.
The 29th pick probably isn't getting you a guy you need right now to get where you need to go.
And quite honestly GB is gonna be a problem with Love and the weapons they have. Having Sneed cut off one of those guys is huge for that defense.
It makes too much sense. The time is now and they should treat it as such
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The NFC is just so wide open. And the FA market is flush with cash to the point that it's actually a little dangerous to go dabbling in it.
I believe it was like the 2013 NBA offseason (edit: 2016 offseason) where all the TV money hit at once and the cap went up something like 30% in a single offseason. Everyone had money and man did they spend it in the stupidest ways imagineable. Pretty much every team that signed a FA regretted it immediately.
That's just what happens in a flush marketplace. Stupid money gets thrown around and the only way to win at that point is not to play.
Well the Lions HAVE to get better. The NFC is too wide open and they came too far (and too fast) to just sit on their hands. They need to improve their defense and the smart way for them to do that is to avoid FA in the process.
So you trade for Sneed and his tag charge, use that as leverage to put together a more reasonable extension and you're cooking with gas.
Absolutely everything about a trade for Sneed makes sense from the Lions perspective. The only question will be how much you could extract from them in the process. It would likely be a pretty fair amount.