there just aren’t enough interior linemen in the HOF.

Players at positions that don’t get HoF love is becoming a Saints thing. Rickey Jackson getting in as a Strongside LB, Morten Andersen as a Kicker and Jahri as a Guard is starting to look like a trend.

Not trading for Lavine or Derozan benefits the Pels more than trading for them.

Neither is a good fit and the player we have to give up to match salary is better than either. So hard no on the trade.

There is a silver lining though. There is a limit to the number of teams willing to trade for help each year, and if two teams trade for these guys they burn their assets and take themselves out of the market if the Pels do look to make a trade later on. Less buyers means cheaper trades.

Times like these remind me of how much smarter the casuals who wait to watch basketball until after the holidays are than the rest of us in this thread

People were having this conversation in the NFL a few years ago when Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Tom Brady were all effective into their late 30’s and even 40’s. Everyone thought it was going to be the new normal until a bunch of other QB’s fell off and retired right on schedule.

Turns out it was just a little group of extreme outliers who by random coincidence were all playing at the same time, and human beings still age like human beings. LeBron playing at this level at his age doesn’t mean the universe has shifted any more than Jordan or Kareem still balling when they were 39-40 did. Some dudes really are just built different, and top stars usually play longer because they are falling off from a higher peak.