Originally posted by FromDaBay2La:
Dumb horrible move and message sent by Lynch and Shanny.
So anybody can just trot in the office ask for a trade and it's granted?! F that. And we get nothing for him. What happened to competition? What happened to depth? How about being a MANAGER John, and not just offing guys for the sake of it.
We can't afford to lose offensive line pieces. And Kilgore is our 2nd longest tenured guy. TERRIBLE. Casted away Bow after disrespecting him and now we're starting Brock Coyle. If Lynchburg head doesn't hold up we're F'd.
Who knows how that conversation between Lynch/Kilgore went? Some people might spin it that a player is being a prima donna and JL axed him, but you could also spin it as Lynch giving a respected player the opportunity to start at Center for another team. I like to think it's the latter.
Seems to me that Kilgore wasn't highly valued. If he was, we would've given him more money and more guarantees. As much as I hate losing a serviceable, experienced guy like Kilgore, and similarly Bowman earlier this year, I like to think that they're thinking big picture and long-term. Kilgore never struck me as being a super great fit and was never a talent that blew anyone away. Yeah, could we have kept him for depth and maybe he wins a starting spot at Guard for a year or so? Probably. But at the same time, it didn't seem like he wanted to be here once he was put in that position. I think the feeling was that we didn't need to fight so hard to keep a guy for the short-term if he wanted to be a starter.