It certainly was not a dull offseason Monday, when the “Sports Junkies” of 106.7 The Fan began discussing Chase Young and the Commanders.
NFL teams have until May 1 to pick up the fifth-year option on first-round picks selected in the 2020 NFL draft. The Commanders selected defensive end Chase Young No. 2 overall in 2020.
Three of the four were present Monday, and here are some quotes from John Auville, Eric Bickel, Jason Bishop and producer “Valdez” as they raised their concerns.
JA: “Personally, I would not be comfortable guaranteeing him (Chase Young) $17 Million for the 5th-year option.
JB: “If he has a bomb year, but can you picture that?
EB: “I think it is worth the gamble not to pay him. Motivate him, have him have a ball-out year, and then you reward him.”
JB: “I don’t know that I am tagging him after an 11-sack season. If he has 15,17,19? Then that is different. But as I said earlier, ‘I can’t picture him having that type of year’ .”
EB: “If he comes out there this year and has four sacks. They should cut him.”
JA: “If he only has four sacks and plays 17 games? Then he would be one of the biggest top-five draft busts of all time.”
EB: “The guy is a huge bust so far… Maybe he should go to WWE. He would probably be a great wrestler.”
Valdez: “It sounds like Ron (Rivera) is using the ownership change to not reward Chase. If Ron doesn’t want to reward Chase, then why do I want to?”
EB: “If you just look at this from a production standpoint, he hasn’t earned it.
Valdez: “If you are Ron and the organization, you had success doing this with Daron Payne. You have a formula to do this.”
Valdez: “If I am running an organization and I have challenged a player for a good season, and they don’t want that, that is not the kind of player I want on my team, right?”
Valdez: “If you are going to be pouty because we are trying to challenge you and motivate you?”
JA: “Maybe part of this is he is 23, and maybe he is immature. I don’t know him personally, but maybe he has some growing up to do.”
EB: “What do you think is the likelihood of him having a 15-sack season?”
JB: “Zero, zero percent.”
JA: “Eight to ten percent.”
EB: “Ten percent, one in ten.”
Here is the link for the full audio segment.