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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Everyone agreed that Engelland was overpaid - such is the nature of UFAs.
However, some of us argued that the overpayment was irrelevant because of their cap position, and that he was a useful addition to a very small and thin D core.
IMO, that is proving to be the case.
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That's true. But I think many also don't remember that Eggs is a D, a potential RW (brutal, but supposedly reasonable on RW in a pinch which was far better than what we had forcasted in terms of talent for bottom pairing RW) and one of our "enforcers". He's a multi functional stop gap in more than one position. At least that's how I swallowed it easier. Luckily, we've only needed to use him for D and not RW, but the point still stands that he was a good choice to deal with more than one weakness if necessary.
I'd keep him over Smid because of how versatile he is. But I also hope greatly that Smid's career isn't in jeopardy due to injury. I keep hoping Smid takes a half a year or a year off to properly deal with the injury in terms of long term considerations for his career.