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I think we knew it was coming. Still, a little sad.
 
Appreciate that he is doing this, but the shame is the team is finally turning a corner while he's on the downslide.
 
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Worse than I thought. Keim is saying low chances we'd get a pick in return for Allen. Looks like he's going to be a cut.

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Dang... couldn't get anything for Allen.
 
I think fans tend to believe that when a player who was considered a 'quality player' gets released, the team screwed up. But the market speaks the loudest. And the market (ie... other team GMs) makes brutally honest decisions about who is worth a draft pick and who isn't. Every GM in the league knows that if a team is trying to dump a player for salary cap reasons, unless the player is deemed particularly valuable, it's a better strategy to wait and see if the team will outright release him vs. giving up a draft pick unnecessarily.

The fact that no one felt that way about Jon Allen tells you a lot about how he's performed in recent years and I'm sure the injury did not help.
 
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I think fans tend to believe that when a player who was considered a 'quality player' gets released, the team screwed up. But the market speaks the loudest. And the market (ie... other team GMs) makes brutally honest decisions about who is worth a draft pick and who isn't. Every GM in the league knows that if a team is trying to dump a player for salary cap reasons, unless the player is deemed particularly valuable, it's a better strategy to wait and see if the team will outright release him vs. giving up a draft pick unnecessarily.

The fact that no one felt that way about Jon Allen tells you a lot about how he's performed in recent years and I'm sure the injury did not help.
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I think in terms of Allen specifically there are two factors in play:

1) GMs knew we were likely to cut him and Allen's diminishing play, big cap number, etc. made him a tough sell.
2) I think Adam Peters has laid out a plan and he knows what cash resourses he needs to try to pull it off. In this case, gaining 16 million in cap space right before free agency and getting his first choices might be more valuable to him than holding out for a third day pick.



3) I don't know that I buy this one, but they also may have wanted to do Allen a favor by making him available early so that he isn't forced to get that third round of free agency money. In any case, a free agency would rather be a free agency now then after the draft or after June.
 
And he tore his pec bad enough in October it required surgical repair. That's a terrible injury for a DL and at age 30, I have to think that was a huge factor.
 


Zach’s back, baby.
 
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