In terms of player transactions in free agency or trades, the NFL can be such a mind-numbingly boring league in major movements. Due to a variety of issues like front offices afraid to push boundaries, and precious continuity being extremely overvalued, shocking blockbuster deals of legitimate superstars so rarely occur. As the saying goes, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. In the NFL, that’s to a fault.
It’s different when the devil you don’t have any familiarity is so clearly better than anything in your possession. When that devil is a future Hall of Famer, and the missing piece to a puzzle you’ve strung out on your dining room table for almost four years now.