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We have five more picks right now. Tomorrow needs to be on point. Hopefully it will fall our way again. I knew, or expected, that we would have a good selection of players available to us at 19. I don’t know about that at 51.

On the bright side of it, his inexperience could be ensuring they don’t have as much for him to do unlearn as they might with an older more experienced guy. But yeah the big picture is would you punt a year if you believed you could get ten quality seasons of LT? Most people would I think.

Adding insult to literal injury, they were extending him. Long term we dodged a bullet, but for this year you have to think the plan was signing bonus, low annual salary for 2026, get some cap room back from that 17.5 million. Nah, you pay the 17.5, and for nothing.

Well I am behind the decision, but really liked Lemon’s game. I think we need that element or dimension in the offense. But really, I was a trade down and still get OT guy. Not trading down might cost us tomorrow. I needed T to be covered, but I badly wanted ILB. Rodriguez, or Golday preferably. That may not happen now.

So, Russini posts about having a ‘big one’ tonight in Nashville. And there is a game too.

Either we, or Zavala, need to something about Zavala. I thought regressed like hell last year.

Okay there is a difference there: I view it as if the job is to catch up to what we were. Which is what you say. Struggle. When this Icky injury happened it set us back from that level. Right there. I feel like without at the least being at the OL level we were at with Icky, it’s certain regression. We have questions about the RBs too (and we Must be able to run it). We definitely could not fix the offense to the level we want if they go backwards up front. It looks like that is handled pretty well and okay let’s move forward now with a solid base. So now find Temo Lemon and make lemonade. FWIW you could find post upon post of me saying no 1st round WR but also one post saying I would waive that if he fell. We do need someone like him. Hard to find, I know. But he might be out there. The other part about Bryce should not limit us, well that was hat the team signed up for drafting a historically small QB that lacked any physical traits you would call plus at the NFL level. We’re just stuck with it. Reality.

Well, for the people who rationalized that building up the WR room would help the next QB if Bryce is gone, I will say the same thing about a LT. Or a RT.

Look, I liked Lemon a ton, but do you really think Bryce Young can lead an offense to the top half of the league with his arm, even if we give him Lemon? I just don’t. Without any running game ten 1st WRs wouldn’t help us much. If either of those tackles misses time we have nothing. No running game, no protection, no production. This is the most practical direction we could have taken. All IMO of course.

Well this is getting a rookie contract into the mix. We can part ways with Moton after this year and spread the hit out. If Bryce flops we’ll need that 1st next year. If if we sign him, we can use the 2027 1st to get a bookend and work on getting Hunt off the books after that. In which case our OL is not expensive at all, or old.

Raw means a better chance he hasn’t gotten bad habits ingrained. This is a long term investment not for the short sighted fan.

The catch to that is, if they don’t protect him he will have excuses and we will have him longer. At least this way if he has no big excuses and does not step up, people can see the reality.

Well, I like Lemon a lot but this was due diligence. It is the non instant gratification adult move given where we are.

We could trade back but it looks like we didn’t. The deed is done whoever it is.

Yay Jets!

He might.

The only WR I would be okay with at 19. He won’t last.

I sort of thought the NYG would trade out of 10.

Two minutes is a lot of time, I like the pace but really would be in favor of the teams getting more time.

I was thinking today, this is the night a lot of kids are going to become millionaires. Then I remembered the reality, that is another time.

I love him as a player. But I can’t sanction the assets.

Who did the Giants take? NM, Reese

That would cost just about our whole draft.

I have seen a lot of people saying Love is the best player in the draft. Dan, stay off the phone until at least 14 or 15. I am using the NFL.com draft tracker. It lists our top need as OL. Which I haven’t seen a lot of. Interesting.

I don’t know what they’ll do. I do think back to when Morgan says he is attacking a weak area he kills a gnat with a sledge hammer. So I would say front 7, however it falls. But the Icky thing is a big deal, and I am sure there are people tugging at his elbow saying weapons for Bryce. So, wild cards. I have had a feeling for a while that he will take a running back on day three somewhere. I haven’t looked at them to say who.