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Originally Posted by YontsRBake
Right, let’s focus on one play when the defense as a whole played like trash cause Sutton was once again lost. Let’s scapegoat our most productive defensive player and trade him for a 2nd in two years then sign career unproductive players for close to the same amount of money. (Adding Okafor to whatever trash CB we overpay)
Of course fans who can’t see beyond hE CoSt uS tHe sB tHo can’t see why an actually intelligent GM like John Lynch jumped all over that trade and immediately paid him. hE wAs oFfSiDeS tHo
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Dude, Ford lined up off sides multiple times over the years and never learned his lesson. I guarantee you the patriots were in the refs ear because you know they were aware that was part of his profile. At the most crucial point of the most important Chiefs game in decades he repeated a stupid mistake that he's made too many times and it cost us a trip to the super bowl.
That said, one play is not the reason he was traded. He was traded because the risks of giving him a big contract outweighed the potential reward. Building a better defense for the Mahomes era begins now. And it means having a more balanced and more versatile defense full of consistent performers. Ford was a one-dimensional pass rusher and a liability in the run game. He was inconsistent, injury-prone, and had a low football IQ as evidenced by never learning to line up correctly.
I liked Ford and always wanted him to prove the naysayers wrong. And he may do just that in SF. But based on his track record there was no way the team could throw big money at him. The odds of it turning into another albatross of a contract were too good.