I hate this ! The moment a player starts to put together a good season while finally becoming healthy, the ITS A CONTRACT YEAR excuse is the reason cmon! I'm sure Claiborne just loved struggling and catching loads of flak from everyone his first few years.
The reason I hate this argument is because if he played his first few years like last year and beginning of this year his payday would have been huge! So let me get this straight he decided to struggle in the beginning years In order to earn far less money on these one year deals instead of a huge deal to secure his future, while basically being lit up by the media, fan's, and I am sure by the management behind closed doors hence the 1 year deals hmmmm the argument makes no sense!
I mean maybe just maybe he finally has put things together and figured out how to play in the NFL as well as being healthy. How about we give the guy some credit.
Now if you want to argue he was not worth that what they gave up in the draft to get him, OK maybe you right since he took this long to develop and based on scouting reports he was the closest thing to a sure thing so we all expected to see the next Sanders. But that's water under the bridge time to move on !
To me it just took longer to develop but he is playing solid now so let's give the man his props. He keeps this up he will get a long term deal !
Way to get it together Claiborne I am happy for you !