Commentary from the edge: The Lesson of Jamil Douglas

Jamil Douglas was probably drafted a round too early.Not that his ascendency through the depth chart is not worthy of a fourth round pick, but it makes what I am about to say more resonant: Spending big money on the offensive guard position is fool’s gold in the NFL.

Tell me about the last time an aged veteran guard signed a huge money contract with a team, and it ended well. I’ll wait.. ..seriously. It does not happen, and the reason why is that guards in the NFL are slightly more important strategically than place holders on the kicking team. You have to have them, but you don’t really want to pay someone a lot of money to do that job, In fact the holders are always moonlighting as…