Moats

[Litos]

on the weak side 4 years 18 million or see how much pernell wants and try try to hammer out a deal with him.
since we play so much nickel it won't matter if moats lines up inside or outside, unless butler is going to remodel our base nickel.

another option is trade down with say denver, so they can secure max williams and we take olb/de eli harold and he is the future lolb he for this year rotate moats, harrison and harold on the weakside.
as well with a 4-3 spence was a stud lolb at the u, can even play timmons or shazier on the weakside as well.

THe Steelers didn't have a chance, too expensive. From cbssports.com:
Free agent outside linebacker Pernell McPhee will sign with the Bears in a five-year deal worth nearly $40 million, including nearly $16 million guaranteed, reports the Baltimore Sun. McPhee, 26, has spent his entire four-year career with the Ravens.

 

[FordFairLane]

That's fair (and obviously I was exaggerating to make a point), but extrapolating - even from a 35% sample size - is dangerous business. Anyone who has spent time watching the NFL has seen the RB who looks amazing when he's the "change of pace" back only for the same guy to look incredibly ordinary when he has to shoulder the full load. It is much easier to be productive in spurts when you have fresh legs (true for both running backs and pass rushers) than to be consistently productive over the grind of a 16 game season especially when all your moves are on tape for the world to see.

And we have seen what Worilds can, or better said, can't produce over the course of a season. I would much rather pay Moats 2.5 million a year to see what he might be able to do than pay Worilds 9+ million to know what he can't do.