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Jermaine Carter #56

DaveThePanther2008

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8 minutes ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

As a Captain if he really is a Captain he will support the decision and show it.  It's a peculiar situation but as a coach you put the best 11 men you can on the field.  Whitehead was just not doing his job.  Carter seems to get the jest of the defense. 

I agree with you, but that is likely not the reality of the situation.  Whitehead should have asked to be benched if he sees it the way we seem to.

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I think that Carter is not a natural MLB.  If there are to be changes, I think (speculation) that Carter will show them that he can do the job Shaq is doing, and that we could draft a MLB, release or trade Shaq, replace him with Carter, and we are better.

I simply look at this more like a GM than a coach.  Shaq is under-performing his contract by millions of dollars--that has to be addressed when it is economically feasible to do so.  This off-season, I have to wonder if it will.  Bad contracts are as detrimental to the team as bad players because they force you to put weaker players on the field at other positions.  Is the difference between Carter and Shaq worth $13m? 

We can cut shaq post June 1 and save $11m, start Carter, and draft a MLB-my favorite value pick, Nate Landman from Colorado (4th-5th round).  Landman is an ILB-- Not the athlete Luke or Beason was, but a hard-hitting LB--maybe a 2 down ILB---which is what we are doing now anyway, thanks to Chinn and the big nickel.  Since we are not running the Tampa 2 like we did with Luke and Beason as much, I think a run-stuffing, cerebral leader like Landman is a Rhule kind of guy--and the 2-down MLB is all we need.   I think we'd be better and saving $10m in cap room allows us to get better at another position--with a starter. 

It was a bad contract, and some have argued, "We have bigger problems."  I agree, and we have $10m tied up in Shaq that could be used to address those "bigger problems."

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