And this is why I have no problem with letting everyone go in our secondary that we did. People say we should have kept either Carr or Claiborne. Or Church. F that. None of them were worth what it would have took to keep them.
We have a young team, and if we have to take a step back to be able to take 3 forward, so be it. Beats the hell out of just treading in the same spot of the cesspool.
I wanted to keep Carr and then one of Church/Wilcox if the money was right, but there is no way I wanted to give Church almost 7 a year or Carr 6+ a year. Wilcox signed a reasonable 2 year, 8 or so million deal with Tampa that I would've been fine with giving him but I keep going back to how most of us wanted him gone last year and then the coaching staff found a way to integrate him as a useful piece to a decent enough defense, so if they were fine letting him go then I'm willing to see how it turns out.
Church had 5 picks in 7 years in Dallas, Carr had 7 picks in 5 years, Claiborne had 4 in 5 years, and Wilcox had 5 in 4 years. That's 21 interceptions in 21 combined seasons, and since Marinelli took over as DC in 2014 these four combined for just 12 picks over those three seasons.
That's an average of one interception per season per player, which is clearly pathetic.
I would've liked to bring one or two of them back simply so we don't have as many glaring holes but I can't blame the front office's logic that they want more play-making from the secondary and that they weren't willing to go above a certain price point to bring some of these guys back.
To me it's that type of logic and thinking that we've all wanted out of our front office for years.