Because $4 million for one game isn't close to "moderate". And your attempted use of the term once again shows your weak attempt at "revisionist history".
$4 million down the drain is a "speed bump". Fanspeak nonsense. Excuse making of the highest order. A joke.
What's "ridiculous" are your continued attempts to minimize
epic failure.
Any time to attempt to minimize it, I'll be here to hammer you over the head for your stupidity.
lol - if you use an emoji you have to be right!
The thing is, by your definition it wouldn't matter if we had signed a player to a league minimum contract and he was only intended to be a 3rd string player and special teams member it would still be an epic fail if he played one game, because to you it's all about the one game and has nothing to do with the actual impact on the team.
I'll say it one more time - I think impact on the team matters in how significant a failure is. Or to use your term, in determining if it was "epic". I think it matters that the contract didn't put a dramatic and lasting burden on the team, and I think it matters that the team had 4 young CBs on the roster and planned them to be the future of the position. They didn't set up Carroll to be the defining player for the position, and they didn't commit significant resources, so in my mind the fact that he failed doesn't qualify as an epic event.
If you feel differently, just accept we have different opinions. Bolding and capitalizing and using emoji's really have no impact on anything. Do that all you want and we still have different opinions.
Oh by the way, Carroll actually played 2 games, with the second cut short by a concussion, which sidelined him 3 more games, after which the team decided they were better off sticking with the younger players who had played over those 3 weeks. I don't know if it would have made you happier for them to stubbornly cling to Carroll to justify the money, but they didn't. In any case, facts don't seem to matter, so let's just forget I mentioned it.