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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Dorsey has a pretty shitty deal of his own on his ledger for a DE this off-season, though. And one that flat out floored me when it was made.
Why ANYONE bailed out the Giants on that Olivier Vernon guaranteed money is beyond me. And to give up a quality G in Zeitler to do so is pretty !@#$ing bad.
But if we're talking degrees here, the Clark deal is significantly more damaging than the Vernon deal, even if the Vernon deal had significantly less upside. If you squint you can see why Veach spun the wheel on the Clark trade - bad idea, but there's a 'damn the torpedoes' logic to it. The Zeilter/Vernon swap, OTOH, was a bizarre one that I couldn't figure out from the word go.
I don't think Dorsey is perfect by any means. He does make mistakes - but most of those mistakes have been overblown by people who felt the need to justify the Chiefs decision to move on from him. Writ large, Dorsey did an awfully good job here and put Veach in a great position to succeed (Veach assumed a FAR better situation than Dorsey did). Veach simply hasn't done anything with that momentum.
Dorsey got excoriated for his 'terrible cap management' (without acknowledging the bare cupboard he inherited or the mandate to be competitive immediately) but it was EASY to get out from under what he did. This team's had a ton a flexibility the past 2 seasons. The problem is that Veach has taken all that wiggle room and pissed it away.
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This part really is hard for me to comprehend. I remember people bitching up a storm about him giving up big contracts, but apparently Veach gets a pass and is allowed to blow his load on all sorts of trash from other teams. At least the contracts that Dorsey gave out were to home grown players that were great. Veach is overpaying monetarily and with draft capital.
Sammy Watkins $16 mil/yr (That is the 9th highest per year average of all WR). Giving $16 mil/year to a WR that was never in the top 20 in receiving yards. His average ranking in that category was 66th. Just based on that he should have made probably half of what he did and then you take into account he has only played 1 full season and that was his rookie season. Yeah he is good if he plays, but God damn, he never plays.
Anthony Hitchens $9 mil/year (12th highest yearly average among all inside line backers) he ****ing blows. That's all I have to say about that.
and last the worst thing that Veach has done
Frank Clark $20.8 mil/year, 1st rounder, 2nd rounder, Chris Jones (22nd highest paid player in the entire league by yearly average. The 4th highest paid defender in the league.) The absolute worst of the worst. This could probably be the worst move by any GM in the last decade. We gave up a 1st and 2nd rounder and then made him the 4th highest paid defender in the league. We also gave him so much that not we probably can't afford Chris Jones.