I wouldn't want us to be overactive, doling out 12-14+ million per year to guys like Vernon and Malik Jackson, we just need to be smart and identify mid-tier guys who can fill holes and not come too expensive. Of course I doubt this happens but still.
It just seems like the market this year is going to be insane with the extra money teams have, a guy like Jackson for example I don't think is actually that much better than a Tyrone Crawford aside from Crawford being more injury prone. Crawford is overpaid at 9 a year but Jackson is probably going to get 13 or more and for what?
Because he is in a much better position to succeed?
If you put Crawford in between guys like Miller and Ware, probably the best edge rushing duo in the league last year, and next to a guy like Wolfe who is a very good interior rusher himself, I think you'd see similar production out of him that you saw out of Jackson.
The only real difference between the two in my opinion is that Jackson is much less injury prone and therefore more reliable, but he smacks as the type of guy who gets insane money from a shit team, gives them a solid 2-3 years and then you never hear from him again.