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So Denver and Philly are organizations you would prefer to be like? Ok By your reasoning Dilfer is better than Cam?

CMC, Jackson, Chinn, Moore, Brown, Burns would be the order I would offer

here again name better teams over the past 10 and KCs success has been recent, and they are as dependent on a QB as anyone. Bills, here again short term success, although I like their model, here again QB dependent. You can't criticize Seattle for living off of their QB and then name two teams who success is directly attributed to their play. Newsflash, really good teams tend to have really good QB play

best way to win the Super Bowl is to give yourself a chance every year, as a fan that is pretty much all you can ask for. After that there is some luck involved, look at the Bills that lost 4 straight, or Eli and the Giants that won 2. You can't count on hot streaks or predict them, but you can build consistency and then you hope the hot streak happens. If you don't like their model of success who exactly do you like? Outside of the Patriots of course?

Here again how many teams were better than them over the last 10 years, last 5? The list is small. Also they were constantly better than us than when we had Cam. They also won a SB more recently than us. You cant count on outlier single years, as a fan you should want your team to be good year in and year out. To make the playoffs almost every year. They have done that for the past 5-10 years as well as almost anyone. For a franchise that has never had back to back winning records their history should be exactly what we are trying to be.

What is their winning percentage the last 10 years? last 5 years? and how does that compare to everyone else in the league.

most articles i see call him a TE. Started as a big WR, moved to TE. low risk, late round guy with some athletic tools. Stephen Sullivan Draft and Combine Prospect Profile | NFL.com

Saints are good because of their drafting, its allowed them to stay competitive while being in "cap hell" Their 2017 draft is probably one of the best draft of all time, that didn't' include a QB. 4 all pro level players on rookie deals goes a long way

I would think that everyone of those conversations also talked about QB at some point. Not just what we should do but also trying to gain insight into what other teams might be doing. Not that the other candidates are going to give away confidential information but any information is a plus.

I remember reading a tweet by Jeremiah early in the year, before Wilson moved up, that he had just watched a handful of games on all 3 guys, Trevor, Fields, and Lance, and that Lance was every bit as impressive. He has been high on Lance for awhile.

Also the further you get down the draft the bigger the tiers become. It might go something like: 1 > 2-7 > 8-15 > 16 -36 > 37-70> 71-120 When multiple players are left on your board in the same tier is when you really start to consider trading down. A huge questions for us is how the QBs are going to be ranked. Is one of them clearly in another tier than the other two? Also you get a lot more variance among how teams have said players rated. One teams 5th rounder can be another teams 7th rounder. I always find it amusing when fans talk about their team reaching late in the draft. At that point its almost impossible to really decide what a reach is.

Then it just further reinforces the idea that OL are hard to find. Just another reason we need to do everything we can to resign Moton.

Good point. Its pretty clear that he would view this years 1st a lot higher than future 1st. Very easy to believe we could be a middle of the road or better team next year. This might be our best chance to really move up and take advantage of the really high pick we have this year. A lot of years its not practical to move up to pick 2 or 3 even if you want. Having pick 8 gives us that chance. All of this is really going to be decided by how they grade Wilson, Fields, and Lance. If you like Wilson a lot, more than the other two guys, you trade up. If you think they are close you stay put and keep your picks, or you just trade up to 5. As fan we tend to get this opinion that one of the is a lot better than the others, I would think Wilson would be that for most people. In reality there is a chance they might fall in love with Lance. You have to remember the Seahawks fell in love with Wilson. Speaking of Wilson, the Seahawks do seem to do a good job of understand the draft as a whole and what other teams do. We always seemed in a hurry to get "our guy". I'm hoping that is different now.

Good point. Its pretty clear that he would view this years 1st a lot higher than future 1st. Very easy to believe we could be a middle of the road or better team next year. This might be our best chance to really move up and take advantage of the really high pick we have this year. A lot of years its not practical to move up to pick 2 or 3 even if you want. Having pick 8 gives us that chance. All of this is really going to be decided by how they grade Wilson, Fields, and Lance. If you like Wilson a lot, more than the other two guys, you trade up. If you think they are close you stay put and keep your picks, or you just trade up to 5. As fan we tend to get this opinion that one of the is a lot better than the others, I would think Wilson would be that for most people. In reality there is a chance they might fall in love with Lance. You have to remember the Seahawks fell in love with Wilson. Speaking of Wilson, the Seahawks do seem to do a good job of understand the draft as a whole and what other teams do. We always seemed in a hurry to get "our guy". I'm hoping that is different now.

He said he would do three 1st + CMC + Burns. I was just taking it to the next step and what point he would say no.

I found that interesting also. Maybe that is more of a philosophical idea instead of something that happens in practicality. There is some thought in the analytical community that drafting QBs often is a good use of draft picks, since the reward is so high. Think about what QBs get on the trade market, think about how much teams spend on back up QBs. You sign a backup vet QB for $4m a year or draft a backup QB for $600k a year, maybe the backup plays a few times, looks decent and you trade him down the road for basically the same pick you used to draft him. Either way I would really be shocked if we truly drafted/acquired one every year? I guess we need to go back and look at what the Seahawks actually did.

lol Like I said, we (not that it matters what we think) and the team have to decide what that cutoff is.

With our flat structure, even then, it will impossible to decide who is responsible.

Even with Cam we have always been inconstant, they have always pretty much always in the playoffs. If the difference between us and them is Wilson, does that mean Wilson was that much better than Cam?

Thats a valid answer, the team just has to decide what their cutoff is. three 1st round picks, I do it in a heartbeat three 1st round picks + CMC, still do it three 1st round picks + Burns + CMC you are starting to reach the point I might not I understand that Watson is a sure thing, but the goal is to field the best team. He might be a sure thing but if you give up too much its not a sure thing that you have a good team. At what point would you say no? three 1st + CMC + Burns + Brown?

How about Watson or Wilson + CMC + Burns + $100m in cap to spend over the next 5 years to add more players to help Wilson? (Basically you would use the three 1st to get Wilson instead of using them to trade up for Watson) I'm not saying there is a right or wrong answer, just when you start looking at opportunity cost the decisions get a little more difficult.

They allowed Russel to cover up a lot of the deficiencies of the O-line.

Fans, and some GMs get hung up on certain players. They believe the guy they can pick at 18 is exponentially better than the one they can pick at 22. They are afraid of losing out. Sounds like Seattle takes emotion out of it and says a guy we draft at 36, in reality, probably has about the same chance of a guy at 28 and because of that we will happily take an extra pick and trade down. I like that philosophy, but at the end of the day you still have to do a good job of evaluating.

weather he has watched tape or not he is aware of the perceived shortcomings of Teddy. These guys are aware of what is going on around the league even if he isn't I'm sure comments have been made by Tepper and/or Rhule. Its ludicrous to think during the interview process they never talked about Teddy. I'm sure he already has some opinion of Teddy.

Every coach and GM likes to talk about fixing the O-line, its what fans want to hear. What sounds better to the average fan? "I value the O-line" or "I value safeties'? I'll believe it when I see it. The fact we did trade a guard for a LT last year does give me some hope about the coaching staff though.