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To chime in on the stafford thing, I'm with leon in that it's not so much stafford is worth it in a vacuum, but that he's just the most recently paid in a league in which the cap keeps going up and up and up. Every top player at their position is going to be the highest paid the longer we do this.

Also, the lions do have a choice, but this was the right one imo. I think stafford is talented enough that they are better off hoping he can somehow catch fire from now on rather than take a gamble at the draft. I think last year was enough for me to say that stafford really is better off without calvin johnson, not because johnson was a bad player, but because of stafford's own tendency to focus on him. I'm seeing that his QBR last year was his personal best, and I'm willing to bet it's because he's now looking for the open receiver rather than trying to force it to Johnson. Also looking at the stats, he's played 16 games each of the last 6 seasons, so he's overcome the injury plague that got him early in his career. He's certainly not elite tier but I think he is the kind of guy you want to lock up long term just because he's demonstrated he can play the position. At this point that's all you can really ask for.
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