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I am seeing a lot of movement in the mocks and it looks like people are getting slotted and re-slotted. The mocks are starting to settle in to a consensus.

We need a short yardage guy agreed. It isn’t just the because of the QB but it isn’t not him either. There are things you normally can expect from the QB that we don’t really ask Bryce to do. But we really do need a guy to pound.

Saw what I think is a good video on Legette. Didn’t want to make a new topic. And he hasn’t been traded, yet. Putting it here. This guy is pretty unbiased on it I think.

We are in a unique situation here. Just my opinion. Three things: Moton’s playing health has been gradually declining as he is aging, while his contract is a drag on the payroll. Something will give with him sooner than later but I think 2026 could be it. So.. need a right tackle by 2027. At the latest. Icky’s individual situation is unique as well. They would have had an extension done by now if not for the injury. We only have him for this year. With no assurance he will ever be the same player. It would be reckless just to assume. Now we have Walker for one year. And that is a major relief. Maybe he is the answer, but the team that knows him best let him go and it was cheap for us to sign him. So how much did they value him? We look to be needing two tackles by 2027. And have poo for depth this year as well. So anyway we could draft a guy for 2027 RT and groom him this year, and see how Icky does, and act as needed in 2027. Spread out filling the two holes over 2 years. Then I remember, hey if Bryce doesn’t get a Lot more consistent do they extend him? Hoping not, if he isn’t really good. So then we are looking at the 2027 draft which people say is gonna be loaded with QBs. If we need a LT and a QB what is the pick gonna get spent on? Taking into account the recovery success rates cited here on the Icky surgery, you might want to plan for him to not be the same player. rather than assume he will be and get caught with your pants down. It is a tough situation. And factor in that it is critically important to protect this QB, always, but especially this year where it is said to be make or break. And how you might feel about that. All of it points to a real possibility that these things converge in the negative, like Bruce sucks and Icky is not the same. In that case if you want to be assured of getting LT secured, the only place you can do that through the draft could be very well be 2026 1st round. For me, I would like to err on the side of caution. Cover for these outcomes. It wouldn’t be fun. Added benefit is if we do have a tackle go down this year we will have a guy there. Because I don’t know what we have now.

It is a scenario that was made for us. It’s like, a no brainer for me.

I have wanted to do that since I first looked at the draft order and the crop of players. A lot of it is, just not that impressed with the selection we are likely to have at 19. And then when I learned how good some of these ILBs are I never bought that we could sit at 51 and get one. So trading back helps us have a chance to move up for one of those guys. To me it is a win win. Get better value with your 1st, and assure you can get your dawg in the 2nd? Yes, all day long.

Well somebody has to look like a 19 pick or there won’t be any trade propositions. I hope one of these overhyped guys falls and we can trade out to pick later in the first.

We are going to have to part with those contracts anyway at the latest, after 2027. Here’s what I think about sinking another 1st into WR: the cumulative passing yards won’t be affected that much. Yards and targets will just be redistributed. Because Bryce can’t play the ‘beat you with his arm’ type of game against 3/4 of the league. Only the weak sisters. Make us one dimensional and the QB hasn’t shown he is up to that. So we have to run a ton. It’s just how it is and the typical Sunday will have lower passing numbers as a result. Yeah he did pull off a great 4th quarter vs LAR in November and looked good against them in the rematch. Did people notice that they responded to that by maki g big moves to upgrade their pass defense? It was a weak unit. Like Atlanta was a weak unit. If he is gonna get better at that vs strong defenses he needs stout protection. Dan showed at first that he understood this, but the OL has been degraded. That room should be maintained as a super strength. I guess it is ‘chicken or the egg’ re Young or his WRs that are to blame but we have seen three years of Bryce’s act. Couldn’t get a TD for Tet until week 6. That’s OROY too. That’s where my opinions fall.

He got Coker, or somebody did. But we need more outside of that 1st round. 1st round is like hitting from the ladies tee.

It would be like watching Atlanta is for us.

1st round WR again. This will be so great. Imagine if we had a QB worthy of all of this. It might be something.

We have taken two TEs in three seasons I think, and Sanders may not pan out or it may have been a sophomore slump, but we took a guy last year that was coming on. I am not in favor of TE in round one and really don’t consider it a high priority in any round.

It seems to me Canales just ain’t that smart, on the imaginative side of the brain. He wouldn’t be able to study McVay’s offense, for instance, and reverse engineer it. Of course, LA has a QB that once threw the ball almost 80 yards and Canales doesn’t and has to work around that. He needs a lot of help around him to be effective, I think he is smart enough to know how it though. That is why Bevell. I am real curious to see if they actually redesigned the offense, overhauled the playbook, etc. All I can picture though is a Seattle Russell Wilson chunk it as high and far as you can and hope, and a big running game. But I am not that imaginative either, and definitely struggle to visualize how much they can really do when they probably have to avoid certain areas of the field in the passing game.

Both things can be, and are true. He may be no offensive genius but he is an offensive minded coach.

They should be looking at winning now, in their position. Scrimping on OL depth is not a recipe for that though. We are scrimping now, with a couple of shaky cornerstones that should not be taken for granted. If we can’t run the ball what do people think happens with Jr back there and his tippytoes and his can’t see the field and bails the pocket as easy as breathing? If Moton misses time, we will be so fuged. Right now, if Hunt or Lewis go down we have Zavala? C is kind of iffy. I can’t fathom people thinking a guy that will get a few targets a game is more valuable than having the OL overbuilt and prepared for attrition. But y’all go on with your Madden/7 on 7 thinking.