Why can't we just move Chinn to ILB next to Shaq and be done with it?

[mickeye76]

6 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The early years of the extension will have huge amounts of money going to Burns, but the cap hits won't be all that terrible.

Even if we only sign 1 big Free Agent, that would negate letting Chinn sign elsewhere after the season, there isn't going to be another unrestricted free agent from this squad next year that could get a good deal.

And we'll have enough cap room next year to go after someone good, finally getting rid of all these massive dead cap hits.

Next year we rule free agency. Moving up to one was huge. We will see if the draft works out for us this year.  Next year is where we shed some dead money and resign the core but add too.  Heck this year we were super active in FA and were working right at the cap. Chinn is a rockstar. He is the modern defense player. All the linebackers this year were basically based off Chinn.  Or Micah Parsons. The oversized safety and the undersized but diesel DE is becoming the norm.  That's why I wanted Jack. He is part of the next wave of quick but old school ILB. 

[mickeye76]

Chinn don't fit inside.  Shaq, TD and Chinn all fit as OLB in a 4-3 but in a 3-4 they move inside and responsibility change. I hope Brown works as a DE cause otherwise with the rentals we have we may need 3 guys upfront and can stop worrying bout the linebackers.  Shaq, Luvu and Yep Smith can hold down the inside and between the multitudes of options at Edge and designed blitzes from Luvu and the safeties we got on roster they should keep the pressure coming 

So the front three is where I wanna see a shake up.  As a team coming into FA next year.  Ya think we can find a NT or 3-4 DE on the cheap? Maybe the rentals become more long term. If a handful of players from this off season produce we will be talking bout using the cap to resign or extend folks. 

[csx]

Because he will be used as the big nickel that Evero likes and is better suited for.

 

We won't be utilizing 2 ILB much at all anyway.