ALERT: Did Auburn Spend Its Money on the WRONG Players? | Auburn Football Podcast

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SPEAKER_6 (3:47)

Why clean out your QB room? Why do that?

And then for what they spent on him, reportedly north of $3 million, if you're gonna win five games, you could have done that with a guy with multiple years of eligibility left, and then went and put a gangster offensive line around him for what you spent on Byrum. Right.

Ike Jones (4:14)

Yeah, listen.

SPEAKER_6 (4:16)

This is not to knock it by Remy. I'm just saying this is part of, I think why in the NFL, coaching and personnel decisions are two different disciplines. And very few owners delegate both those disciplines to one person. Because sometimes the coaches can lack objectivity when it comes to certain personnel.

And a GM will look at it very unemotionally and more holistically and say, here's how we evaluate this person. This is what this person gives us the best. This is what the tape says. This person gives us the best chance to win. Right. Doesn't matter what your relationship to the player is. None of that. All that matters is are they the absolute best that we're going to get for our money? And are they a good culture fit? What we're trying to build?

For years and years and years, Ike, the Patriots proved that overpaying players, you don't have to do that to win Super Bowls. Yeah.

Ike Jones (5:36)

Yeah. It all comes down to fit and evaluation.

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They did that well for almost two decades.

Ike Jones (5:42)

That's why I don't really like the conversation about how much money gets spent is so irrelevant to me. It's like, I don't really care how you spent the money.