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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Not sure I agree. Coleman and Backlund always help players on their line. Young player - put them with those two. Struggling player - put them with those two. I don't know how you measure the value of that - but there is value.
And if they don't trade him this year, they can trade him at the deadline next year. Hard to know what the value difference would be.
To be clear, I'm in favor of dealing him. But it's not insanity to keep him for some of those reasons.
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All of that may be true to whatever extent, but it doesn't change the fact that there is no business case for keeping him. The post I quoted was making a claim that trading Coleman is bad for business. That claim holds no water.
Coleman the player is great. He and backlund provide very favorable conditions for their linemen. No disputing that. There's no real body of evidence that the player becomes better once they leave their line and that there's some down stream effect of improving the team through mentorship, but I even but into that in a small way.