Did Vrabel Skip Trades to Protect the Locker Room?

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00:00I heard this on one of the shows yesterday.

00:03What if Vrabel says, look, I have this locker room right where I want them.

00:08They're in completely buying in.

00:10If I make a trade and bring a guy in to usurp someone's job,

00:15I'm throwing off the balance of that.

00:17I'm not rewarding the guys for buying in and playing the way they played.

00:24That was a theory that was thrown out there that I didn't think was ridiculous.

00:28I don't think it's ridiculous, but I also don't think that there's any one person

00:33that could point and say, hey, I'm the one who's getting screwed over here.

00:36There's a bunch of guys who have elevated a little bit or a lot,

00:41if you want to, in the case of DeMario Douglas or Kayshaun Boone.

00:44Well, the guy losing their job would be the guy that got screwed.

00:49Okay.

00:49Well, I think if you go far enough down the roster, there are guys down there who are,

00:54yeah, buy-in or not, if you end up getting a better player,

00:57this presumably has happened to each one of these guys at some point in their career.

01:01It does happen.

01:03And at some point you can't.

01:03Well, it's a relatively young team, though.

01:05So all I'm saying is that there is a point to be made that he goes,

01:11look, we're 7-2.

01:14We don't have a great deal of talent.

01:16There's no way we're going to upgrade the talent.

01:18But here's what – because you're talking about, like, okay, bring in depth,

01:21which I thought was a possibility.

01:24But then I heard this.

01:25I didn't come up with it, but I thought it.

01:27So just go through this line of thinking that Vrabel goes, look,

01:32we're so far outperforming our talent right now that everyone knows.

01:37You know, I know.

01:38The audience, unless they're kidding themselves, know this is not an exceptionally talented team.

01:42An exceptionally talented quarterback, not an exceptionally talented team.

01:46And a defense that has talented pieces.

01:49And Vrabel goes, okay, it's not so much even the draft capital.

01:55It's that if I upset, like, any of this ecosystem,

01:59and there is, like, this belief that your job's not safe even if you're performing well,

02:07then it's not worth it.

02:09It's not worth it for this year, and it's not worth it for the long haul.

02:12Like, this depth piece, sure, if Moses gets hurt, that, you know,

02:18this depth piece can, you know, slot in.

02:21But I don't know if that's going to happen,

02:23and do I really want to upset things just in case.