Valid points, but the OL market was pretty weak.
Osmele is 3 years younger than Saffold, better when healthy, and I’m guessing Saffold will get a pretty big deal with equal or more AAV and more years.
If Saffold chose to go elsewhere, what was plan B for us?
In my opinion the move we made is better than Saffold would have been for us from a play perspective and will turn out to cost us probably less money to boot.
Also I believe his deal is out of monetary guarantees, which means if he doesn’t live up to expectations, we can cut him in a year for free and use the $11.7 million that would be his salary and buy his replacement.
We knew Gase neglected guards in Miami and watched it implode in his face. He’s obviously making sure that won’t be happening here with his franchise QB