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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.

I always looked at it like, you have to win your division. You build your team to do that, primarily, and secondary to that would be the rest of the league. But the division is what you have to win. As we just saw, a losing record gets you a home playoff game if you can just beat your division foes. 1st goal, every year.

Well maybe they think that playing next to Lloyd will help him. But I am not loving that.

That is my question. Is he depth or starting? If depth, it might be a clue. Because he could have been depth here. Maybe we intend to have Wallace and Cherilus be depth, and we take a LB early.

And you cannot rely on Icky when making future decisions. You just can’t. He isn’t even under contract for next year. If we have too many franchise LTs I think it will work itself out.

Draft some guys and you won’t be paying 15m per year. And not 7 either for a lot of them. Yes it does. The way the defense was allowed to go to seed was practically criminal. It was not going to be rebuilt, or built, into a strength with 3 thirds and a single second in three years of drafting. If we pass on defense (in the 1st) that will be the 5th straight year. That is not any kind of balanced approach.

Well yes of course TMac was awarded that award. Give Bryce however much of the credit for that that suits you. I said that I believe he would have been even more productive with a better QB throwing him the ball. And writing this brings to mind, it took him what seemed like forever to get his first TD.

Just start throwing the darts. We have two 5th round picks.

Go for it. In the big scheme of things we could survive missing a single pick even at 19. 4th or 5th round?

That seems to be the way it is playing out. We still do have next year but I want a QB next year unless Bryce is seriously not the same Bryce. So if a legit 1st round LOT for some reason happens to fall to us at 19? You have to take him. Need that 1st for maybe a QB in 2027, in case we would go Deal with Icky later, but he is an unknown as of the present.

I think there is a good chance a tackle would play a lot this year.

Said he was just horrible in the playoff game vs Chicago. And yeah, down the whole year. But was excellent maybe 2023. We have to hope for that guy to suit up. and yeah I am for sure on draft OT. Depth is non existent.

I guess Iook at things on offense and say “if you really want to upgrade the offense QB is the spot that needs it”. As far as certain positions, that is why QB was listed in my ‘approved’ offensive positions, the ones I could see some justification for passing over a down lineman for the defense, or two or three other needs. Upgrading with a subpar QB who requires limitations put on the offense, is just a very inefficient way to do it. I wonder what McMillan’s stats are with a top 12-15 QB, or would have been, as an example. This is my bias, but I don’t feel like you are going to get the most out of a Sadiq if you take him at 19. If you are going offense, Bryce doesn’t affect non skill positions the same way so take those guys first. Especially after the gorging on receivers.. 2022 2nd, 2023 2nd, 2024 late 1st, 2025 top ten 1st. 4 years straight. 2023 DJ Johnson 3rd 2024 Wallace 3rd 2025 Scourton 2nd, Princely 3rd. Three years of drafts. Give the defense a couple of 1sts. Guys that will be the next Phillips and Lloyd when their contracts come up again.

I will give you this: the signings of Phillips and Lloyd pretty much mirror the signings of the guards in 2024. So they are kind of a wash. But you look at the draft picks invested it is lopsided towards the offense. And when you do that make sure to count every pick that was used for our franchise QB. And DJ Moore needs to count as something too. You add that haul in with the picks we had left that went for offense, the defense is still the red headed stepchild and deserves some day one attention. edit: due to the OL crisis that we are just starting to go through, if the right left tackle falls I think you have to bite the bullet and do your duty, but we may be able to address it as a right tackle issue on day two. If we do not address either tackle position at all it will be dereliction of duty. IMO.