Yeah, that would be pretty Special person to apply what I said to a mid-season injury. My point was that if the Chargers chose not to bring back Allen this offseason, they could have used $44M to bring in a comparable WR. Phil Rivers has shown that he can operate at a consistent high level despite an ever-changing WR corps. Jeffery is easily the best WR the Bears have drafted since Harlon Hill in the 1950's. If the Bears are unable to lock up Jeffery to a long-term deal, there is no way they are going to spend $50-60M on an FA WR to replace him. They will have to settle for someone much worse than Jeffery.
Sorry if that was too complicated of a thought for you. BTW, the Chargers were 2-6 with Allen, and went 2-6 without Allen. Yeah, I didn't follow San Diego's 2015-2016 campaign, which I'm sure you did, but I'm just stating facts.
Yeah...but they were a completely dead stick worthless team the second half of the year, rivers performing miracles just for them to lose by a little.
That was as depleted a roster I have ever seen, and yet they played us to a TD game, had a chance to win. By the end it wasn't just Allen, but every weapon except Woodhead sometimes, and the entire o-line.
I'm not sure Jeffery is irreplacable, if he went to Carolina I would suck my thumb and hope we got Kelvin Benjamin on HIS next contract. And we would have 55,000,000-60,000,000 in your scenario to spend on a WR, or comparable impact to the team.
I'm in the Kevin White's upside is an average to good with positive blocking #2 WR in the NFL...so I'm with you. If the Bears are being cheap..they are being stupid, they won't easily replace Jeffery (just as San Diego could not easily replace Allen...that was a draft pick hit for them and he panned out better then several WR's drafted before and just after him from a talent perspective).
I enjoyed the discussion though Rory...you defended yourself well.
