Mickey is s company man who knows who writes his checks. "Next man up" and "we like our guys" are phrases that have been overused since the Garrett era.
Wel, I'm sure that McCarthy has talked about "draft and develop," but it's the Joneses' strategy, not his. In fact, his first year here, he tried to use their cheap FA philosophy on proven older vets like McCoy, Poe and Clinton-Dix, and it backfired. For the Joneses, that probably just felt like vindication to them for not spending big money on name FAs, but what it really showed is that if you buy cheap name vet FAs, you get broken-down name vet FAs.
That probably should give us pause on Peters, but we're more in a forced-hand situation. There's not much out there right now, so we might as well take a chance that he can squeeze out one more decent season, especially since our preference is that our first-round pick prove capable of handling to starting role. Cheap name vet insurance is a whole lot different than cheap name vet starters.
