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Unless he switches to CB..... How many safeties do we need? Chinn (S/LB) Woods (S) Bell (S) Franklin (S) Rowe (S) Dorn (S) Missed Opportunities

The pick is in!

Here we go!!!!

Or.....

Fingers crossed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I'm Deonte Foreman I'm feeling like......

I dislike the Eagles (personal bias against all bird based teams), but you can't help but like what they have been doing here. You take key members from an all time defense, who know how to play with each other and you have instantly created a culture of family and accountability. You just created 5 pillars of leadership on your defense to mix into seasoned veterans. It takes some serious variables out of the equation of team building.

Well he had Ryan V......

Would #114 get Chase Young? You know he isn't going back there in '24? If our second (#39) and our fourth (#114) got us Lucas Van Ness I'd consider it. He could be Watt level. I'd honestly trade back with Miami if they'd listen. Target a solid CB and zone in on Dereck Hall. Offer our picks #39 and #145 for Miami's #51, #94, and #197

WOW

If we make the playoffs in a weak NFC South we are giving up at worst the 18th pick. I'm ok with that trade off

I would love to see him in Carolina!!!!!

The reason we have done so many restructures is that any unused cap space rolls over the following year. We likely aren't using about half of our room this season. That rolls over the following year, combined with the natural increase in the salary cap give us a huge boost year to year. If Burns signs an extension the year, and his salary cap figure drops for this season as well, that will help immensely. The cap is expected to increase over 30 million dollars. You save that extra 10-15 mill to roll over each year it either cancels out dead money or cancels out the salary of a upper tier player on your team. Having the rookie QB contract also saves us about 20 million per year. The new number for a MID QB is 30 million. I'd rather reach for a rookie than finance the likes of Jimmy G, David Carr, or Ryan Tannehill. If you run this scenario over the life of a rookie QB contract, once it is time for the rookie to resign, a few of the upper tier stars would have already been paid and are now at the point of diminished returns and will either accept lower contracts or move on past their prime to another team. Samir knows his stuff..... This ain't Marty-nomoics, this plan will work.

Those would be AWESOME!!!!! I was given a Luke Jersey for Christmas one year. It's an official Nike version. I can hardly wear it because there is so much vinyl on the sleeves that I cannot move my arms. The Reebok ones were SOOOOOOOO much better! I'm planning on getting one for our new QB or Burns, whoever's contract is longer! I hope the fit (both literal and figurative) is improved.

I think there is some gold in the mid to late 4th round. I would be 100% on board with trading back from #39 if we were able to pick up a late 3rd or early mid round 4th to add to our war chest. Here is how I'd love to see it play out: #1 - Young or Stroud - no preference 2nd - trade back towards the end of the round and pick up Derek Hall (OLB/DE) 3rd (93) - Eli Ricks (CB) later 3rd - early 4th from trade - Mims, A.T. Perry, Rasheed Rice, or Cedric Tillman 4th (114) - Luke Schoonmaker (TE) 4th (132) - Colby Wooten (Big DE) 5th (145) - Vorhees (G) if he drops this far, can't pass up solid talent or Tyler Steen / Jalen Duncan to shore up our tackle depth

Perfect 3rd or 4th round pick. I still think we need to trade back in the second and pick up an extra 3rd. Target Derek Hall, Eli Ricks, and Schoonmaker

Chinn more likely than not will be assigned to the TE most of the time. I don't see how DJAX just seamlessly recovers from an Achilles injury with no side effects. Unless we address the corner position in the draft you will be seeing more CJH than you'd like and Horn will ne locked on the each team's #1 receiver. Looking at the LB's coming out of college, size isn't the be all end all from what it used to be. In addition, we brought in some HOG MOLLYS on the front that will hold up the linemen and allow for linebackers to run fast and free. Chinn and Frankie are the same basic size. 6'3 230 ish for Frankie and 6'3 220 for Chinn. YGM is going to be more valuable from a warm body standpoint on game days than many think. He is big enough to spell at the DT/DE than some other players. I haven't run down what a game day 53 would look like, but I would value a player who can fill multiple positions if and when people get injured. If we could trade back in the second to around 50 and pick up another 3rd round pick I think we would be golden! I'd target Campbell (ILB) out of Iowa, Ricks (CB) out of Alabama, and AT Perry out of Wake with our first three picks. Our later picks could be used on an additional linemen on both sides. I like Wooten out of Auburn and Richards out of UNC. Maybe stealing KJ Henery and Davis Allen out of Clemson would be a win in my opinion. I am smitten with the TE out of Michigan Luke Schoonmaker, but I'm pretty sure he will be picked up before we hit our needs. Long story short, With Brown, Tuttle, Williams, and McCall up front our LB's will have room to run free and make tackles.

Breese was a second round pick, ended up being worthy of first overall about 4 years into his career. Haskins was an underachieving boozehound (as a pro). Drank himself into a grave and out of a career, sad but a fact. Fields played for the Bears the past two seasons with NO weapons or offensive line. You put Fields in our current situation as a rookie and he would have passing numbers similar to his college career. All he has had was a washed out offensive line, an undermotivated Allen Robinson for 8-10 games, and a host of JAG's as the Bears tanked. If the Panthers drafted him two years ago I bet Rhule would still be our coach. (Thank GOD for unanswered prayers) The OSU bashing is not legit. I'd take Goff, he brought a team to a Super Bowl. Only one teams wins every year. Being in the hunt is a level of success I'd be ok with. Was Delhome a bust because he made one and lost? The same with Cam? Not every QB is going to be Mahomes or Burrow. You put the team in a position to make a playoff run and let it all shake out however it plays out.

Anyone who wants ODB around our team let alone the #1 pick in the draft needs to look at this video at 9 minutes in to see how nice the security were to him, then at about 14 how selfish and obnoxious he truly is. So sorry dude that you are put off that a PLANE FULL OF PEOPLE are put out because of YOU. He can be someone else's problem and I if we play him, I hope JC Horn embarrasses his smug ass. The man has little to no character. I never want him to use Bank of America, eat at Bojangles, and from here on out is banned from consuming sweet tea.

If we weren't so short on receiver I would totally be down grabbing a corner with our 2nd. If not, we need to find a good vet to fill in for either CB or WR (or both).

Here is how I would build it.... Trade down in the second to pick up an extra late third....

I would take Brandon Cooks and Texans eat 50% of his salary to swap picks, and a 3rd.

They can keep Allen Robinson. He sucked that last two years. Van Jefferson is more intriguing.

Lamar is too expensive, wants a full guarantee, and is a twist of the knee or butt hurt away from being a worse contract then Russel Wilson. Trading DJ hurts, but if we cut Shaq, Efflin, STO, and Gonzalez we will have 43M of cap space this year. We could roll with DJ Shark, Paris Campbell, TMJ, and Shi at WR and still have cash to fill out the roster with mid range vets.