No argument in what you just said, but the going thought was the Eagles were getting a proven vet pass rusher rusher for little draft cost. Obviously, there's no change to the value we received. But the Eagles, at least so far, are definitely not getting the relative value on their side of the equation.
Just read an article yesterday about the Eagles not getting what they expected from Quinn, and there has been very little production. I think the biggest gain was the bears getting playing time for Robinson, at least he finally got to play more last week. First two weeks Quinn was gone they split the left guys up and Robinsons snaps actually went down to 30%. Quinn knows it too, which is why he agreed to not force the Eagles to pick up his option at that pay next year, even though it should be his "on" year.
Quinn agreed to those terms, simply because those were the terms that the Eagles laid out. He could either take the trade and go to Philly, forgoing his option. Or... he could stay in Chicago. Where his option was not going to be picked up anyway by a rebuilding team with no interest in paying an aging pass rusher a huge sum of cash to stick around.
technically, declining is a question since he is pretty damn good every other season. I do not know what his goals are, getting the bulk of the 50 million might be more important to him than a ring. If you noticed the Eggles just signed Suh, so after the washington game, they knew they still had problems.
