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My reaction was “why in the hell would they do that?”

Lol and since they are not signaling that to Dallas, it means they are taking one if they can. lying season. Good luck deciphering the truth.

I always felt it should be, but when I play it out in my head we are at the end of the buffet line. The year one guys are gone at 19. The player who might be ready in year two, you could get later, so value enters into it some. Maybe it turns out better. The draft is such a dynamic process, one curve ball early can throw everything out the window for a few picks.

If Tepper is in on Morgan, and if Morgan thought that was the best strategy, he has to let him be unafraid to make his move. Whole lot of ‘ifs’ there. It is the least sexy 1st round pick next to not having one, not much Christmas morning ‘unwrap your presents’ feel to it. But when I look at the big picture it is a solid option. We have to have some rookie contracts on that OL while keeping it strong. Moton is very short term, Icky is now a totally unknown quantity, and it is very conceivable that we could be in the market for a new QB in the 2027 draft. In which case we could not draft a tackle over a QB in the 1st in 2027. So if you find the right one has fallen to you in 2026, it should be very seriously considered.

And we are still playing it.

Defense gets the draft scraps, and you have to get players from somewhere. When you use number one picks for offense 2022-2025, it will be from FA by necessity. Sorry, all due respect new LBs twice, literally made me laugh out loud. It seems like that position has been a black hole.

I guess. They say he is better pass than run. Also he was supposedly a better player in like, 2023. So find what he changed and change it back.

Okay I see that we smoked them twice in 2005 Davis’ first year. The next year not so much though. Lost 20-7 and won 10-3 or 10-7.

Okay I probably should have said for a draft pick. There are times when I would be okay with maybe trading next years 1 for an established player. But not many. Think about it, you are trading 5 years of a controlled cheap contract for a contract that will probably be your largest or one of them. It is an incredible price to pay.

They violated at least two of my cardinal rules with that trade up. I don’t believe in trading future first round picks, for anything. That’s what got Hurney on my poo list. That is the big rule. The other rule is, if a player worth that kind of investment is sitting at the 1.1, the team with the pick will not give it up. You are trading for less than that, if you trade. So maybe do not do it.

Been saying it for years now. Would rather have tried it that way than trading ti the 1.1.

Lot of different agendas dictating opinions. I don’t think it was the best use of money with Hunt, specifically, but the concept of OL, I am a fan. I didn’t complain a ton because I am a believer in winning up front, on both sides of the ball. I’d rather have stout fronts than fancy WRs. I have complained some about Hunt not being worth his deal, after seeing him get pushed around in a game or two. It’s no crusade. And have complained in the context of shorting the defense. They have leveled out the FA imbalance with the dual big signings this offseason, and it has always been the draft picks I am most protective of. Anyway The picks are the real imbalance. If you did a trade chart value of the picks we directly gave up for Bryce, and added the support picks invested for skill players, and put that on one side… then put the little 3 3rd rounders and a 2nd that the defense got over three years on the other it would be hugely out of balance. I just want the balance restored. Defense is still owed.

Throw all the cheap FA deals and later round picks you want at WR and TE. Most are probably fine with that. And, I am okay spending to protect the QB too. And would 100% rather see the spending focused there than on fancy pass catchers.

If you are doing one year contracts yeah I guess you should factor your opponents into it.

I think that is the first goal of pretty much every team. No one seeks to make it in via WC, in August anyway. You take what you can get, but you always set out to win your division. People look around at their division foes and say okay we can probably expect strong rushing attacks. So we’ll need a stout run D. Mandatory. Etc. We drafted TD basically to spy on Vick. We could do nothing with him up until then. It kind of helped but they were still putting it on us too often for a while. You have to match up to your division.