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On National Tight Ends Day, it was fitting in the end that the Hummers got the better of the Ferraris.<\/p>\n
Some gaudy stats in Sunday\u2019s nightcap indicate that superstar speedster CeeDee Lamb outperformed tortoise-like George Kittle. The most important numbers say otherwise.<\/p>\n
The final score had Kittle\u2019s 49ers beating Lamb\u2019s Cowboys 30-24 (again). But in the big picture, the disparity was much greater.<\/p>\n
You see, Lamb is a part of a growing problem in the NFL. Simply stated: Wide receivers make too much money.<\/p>\n
You pay a wideout $34 million \u2014 like the Cowboys do Lamb<\/a> \u2014 you wind up with a defense that gets run over by a third-string running back.<\/p>\n Not always, but enough that some forward-thinking NFL teams are changing the way they model a roster.<\/p>\n Take the Bills. When it came time to dole out big bucks to Stefon Diggs last offseason, the Bills told him to take a hike \u2026 and take sidekick Gabe Davis with him.<\/p>\n Rookie Keon Coleman would suffice \u2026 especially at about a $15 million-a-year savings.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t look now, but the Bills are playing arguably the best football east of Detroit all after allowing someone else \u2014 thank you, Browns \u2014 to pay the bulk of their almost No. 1 receiver Amari Cooper.<\/a><\/p>\n The Chargers took the concept one step further when Jim Harbaugh turned his newest NFL project into a college economics class.<\/p>\n Simply stated: You recruit top talent on the cheap, ride it to riches for four years, then wave goodbye and start the process over again, all the while investing heavily in line depth on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n Few, if any, in the NFL would understand this concept better than Harbaugh, who employed it all the way to a national title at Michigan. So you can\u2019t really be surprised that the first thing he did upon getting the Chargers gig was tell Keenan Allen and Mike Williams to hit the pike.<\/p>\n