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Originally Posted by Chromeburn
Never understood why they signed Armstead and not Buckner.
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I can actually see the logic in it from a pure money ball perspective. They needed space to resign Kittle, Warner, etc and were up against the cap. Buckner wanted at least 20 million per. Armstead was a little cheaper and they talked themselves into the notion that they could make up that difference with their stacked d line.
What they didn’t calculate was the type of player Defo is. You don’t replace incredibly durable, all pro, defensive captains like him, especially when he’s only 25.
The fact that a guy like Ballard jumped on that deal should have clued them in that it was a bad one.