Sydla
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When the conversation is about percentage of salary cap for a player or position of course a DE taking up $20M of that is relevant. Just like Jaylon Smiths contract is relevant.
Every position is relevant to the conversation. The salary of a player and the percentage of the cap they take up needs to weighed by the impact that have on the game.
If you want to pretend that Zeke hasnt had an impact on the game then this conversation just went down to stupidsville and i'm not interested in hanging out with you in that town.
Its not relevant because they don't play the same positions. LBs and DEs make more than TBs. So comparing what each percentage is to the cap makes little sense. LBs and DEs often take up more percentage of the cap space than TBs.
The fair comparison is compare Zeke to other TBs and other teams and what they are spending on their running games.
You are misinterpreting the last question. It's not that Zeke hasn't had any impact, the point is if he's so good and he's worth every penny we are paying him, he's certainly not impacted the game enough to prevent this team from going 3-3. That's the point. Are you getting your investment out of him? I'd so no because you can't argue he's the best offensive player and what makes the offense go and why he deserves all that money and then turn around and basically say he has no bearing on the fact the team is only 3-3 and the offense hasn't looked all that good.
If Elliott is reliant on other players and that's why we are 3-3, then guess what? Elliott isn't the big game changer you are paying for. He should be able to totally take over games himself. He hasn't.
What's stupidville is claiming he's a game changing back deserving of all that money but then turn around and claim you can't criticize him or think he's overpaid because the OL isn't blocking for him, etc.