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[mvossman]

Despite fairly good numbers at times, no one seems to want to pay Grimes and the assets it takes to get him when he's traded are less than impressive.  At the time it all happened, it made sense to move from Green to Grimes and from THJ to Klay.  Green finally got to start and saw his usage actually go down on a bad team.  And, as mentioned, THJ was a rental and is now a Vet Min.  But, Klay and Martin don't seem to be the answer either...especially at guard.  Because of his status around the league, you can't just ship Thompson off to some cellar dweller.   Meanwhile, Martin looks like someone who is going to really be costly from a tax standpoint if he's indeed the 12th man or so on the depth chart.

The problem is they never replaced DJJ.  They really need that high level point of attack defender (which they still don't have).  If Grimes had been able to play that role it would have made a lot of sense, but he is a lot more like Klay than DJJ.  They would have been better off paying DJJ his 10 mil to start and sign Grimes (instead of a 10 year older Klay) to the MLE as THJ replacement.  Then Grimes gets plenty of minutes because he is not competing with Klay for the same role.

I'm not sure what the deal is with Grimes.  There is enough evidence to have concerns that he might have coachability issues, but there are also reasonable alternative explanations for that evidence.  I'm going to be very curious how it plays out in Philly.