Matt Derrick

If it had been, maybe you do get the first-round pick plus something else.

So maybe you get a little bit better than what the Giants returned.

But it's also possible that there's nobody that's desperate out there, and maybe you get somebody who will say, well, we're going to take the financial hit and sign him, but we don't want to give up too much, so we'll give you a second.

I mean, I can't bet on any type of improvement.

I have to assume that Chris is going to just continue a slow decline.

Maybe it'll be a rapid decline.

And, I mean, there's an interesting question to me, and you were talking about if you traded him during the 23 draft.

I mean, on the one hand, do you still win a Super Bowl that season with a rookie Jalen Carter and no Chris Jones?

And then...

What happens in 24?

Does that change anything in 24?

I mean, do you now win a Super Bowl against the Eagles?

Because you've got Jalen Carter and they've got Pierce Jones.

it's i don't know i mean to me building a roster it's really really difficult and some of the decisions that you have to make i mean they're i would not i don't envy a general manager has to because i mean with the chris jones thing

I get it's a ton of money, and you could absolutely be saying that, hey, you don't need to be spending that $45 million on Chris Jones.

It needs to be spent elsewhere.

But at the same time, you know, paying Chris Jones one, I mean, I don't know what they would have done otherwise.

I mean, they have no Chris Jones replacement.

It's a little bit about the same thing you got with Travis Kelsey.

They have nobody to replace Chris Jones, and you're not going to get a Chris Jones replacement on free agency.