ErroneousFlint
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Sooner or later ZT is not gonna be of any use to us; no play value, no trade value.
He's in his ninth year, puts up phenomenal numbers, therefore, now is the time to get something for him.
Linebackers these days have an average career span of what? 10 years?
He has never missed this many games and as you get older, you're not gonna heal any faster.
Do you really think that we will win a Superbowl by retaining him in his final years?
Soon he'll begin avoiding contact for fear of re-injury, merely existing out on the field.
I say that 10 years is the average career span of linebackers. It's more like 8 productive ones and ZT's 2004 numbers prove that he's more than just average.
Coakley - 8
Butkus - 9
Offerdahl - 9
Singletary - 11
Lambert - 11 and after year 8 productivity declined.
Sure, there are the exceptions:
LT - 13 (altogether different defense and how they used him)
Jack Ham - 12
But in three more years, what will be more important:
ZT retires a Dolphin
or
The Dolphins reach The Superbowl !!!
???
Pro-active thinking ......
He's in his ninth year, puts up phenomenal numbers, therefore, now is the time to get something for him.
Linebackers these days have an average career span of what? 10 years?
He has never missed this many games and as you get older, you're not gonna heal any faster.
Do you really think that we will win a Superbowl by retaining him in his final years?
Soon he'll begin avoiding contact for fear of re-injury, merely existing out on the field.
I say that 10 years is the average career span of linebackers. It's more like 8 productive ones and ZT's 2004 numbers prove that he's more than just average.
Coakley - 8
Butkus - 9
Offerdahl - 9
Singletary - 11
Lambert - 11 and after year 8 productivity declined.
Sure, there are the exceptions:
LT - 13 (altogether different defense and how they used him)
Jack Ham - 12
But in three more years, what will be more important:
ZT retires a Dolphin
or
The Dolphins reach The Superbowl !!!
???
Pro-active thinking ......