James Palmer

We need a closer.

That's oftentimes the way edge rushers are thought of for teams that are right there.

Kind of like a baseball analogy, essentially.

Our dominant edge rusher is great for your roster when you're not close to winning a Super Bowl.

I mean, we just watched Max Crosby's career in Vegas, right?

It's different when you're a contender.

And Buffalo did that with Vaughn Miller.

They did it with Joey Bosa.

And you try to get these veteran guys that still have something in the tank that were some of the best in football, and they're a little bit cheaper towards the end of their career.

Those guys are all still available, and there's still possibilities, I think, if you want to plug them in.

I think you can wait a little bit, and I think there's a lure, like Chicago partially has.

Vaughn Miller really takes into account, do I have a chance to win another Super Bowl?

Money's not really an object to me.

I think Joey Bosa's a little bit in the same vein.

Can you lure these guys in with the idea that they have an opportunity to win a ring in Chicago, and you can wait them out in free agency?

There's that path.

Obviously, there's a path of drafting them and keeping them and making sure they never hit the likes of free agency and you keep giving them deals.

The Trey Hendrickson one is obviously still out there, and it's out there, to my understanding, because nobody's met his price.

We've seen Trey out there in golf attire during off-season activities where everybody's practicing and he's holding press conferences.

He's a guy that holds pretty firm in where he believes his value is.