
Originally Posted by
TarlsQtr
By who?
It is easy to say lock him up and it MAY be the best thing they could do. However, there are two problems:
1) If he is the "best nickel corner in the league", you can bet that he and his agent know it and will want to extort as much as they can. It takes two willing parties to lock the guy up.
2) It is the classical dilemma. If they do not sign him now and he performs well, he signs somewhere else next year and everyone b!tches about the organization because we never keep young talent. If they do sign him now and he performs anything less than stellar, everyone b!tches about him being wasted cap space (see comments here regarding Polamalu, T. & Woodley, L.).
Granted, Colbert and company get paid to make the right decisions on these matters but all the wannabe GMs will swear on their mother's graves that they were right about Allen two years earlier regardless of the outcome.
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