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I want an ILB this year. And I really like seeing what Brian Baldinger thinks. He was killing it on Derrick Brown this year. Last year. He is apparently is going through every position for pre draft evaluations. This is video of his ILB evaluation. Put other videos here too if you want.

I am trying to remember when I EVER said reach for need. My thing if someone falls you jump, if you can trade back a few slots and get help at the right value and pick up some ammo to move up from 51 which I think is outside the money zone, then you do that. Take a WR later. Plenty of capable WRs have come from the 3rd round. Though this year I would go for C there if there was a reasonable choice. Take a TE if you must. I see more reason to take WR than TE. I think you give guys drafted two years ago and last year a chance to develop before cancelling them. I think it is kind of unrealistic to throw everything all in on offense in hopes of going deep in the playoffs after an 8-10 year, even if it did have some nice bright spots in it. And outside of this argument but relevant to it, I am bothered by Canales and Morgan and their apparent posture that we have arrived and are now in the big boy club. I don’t know where that comes from. They are out there talking like they are winners at 8-10. Backing into the playoffs in a real convoluted tie breaker scenario. They had some good games, yes. But the big feather n the cap, the LA Rams matchups, did you see what the Rams did? They didn’t fire the coaches but they fired their defensive backs. Bryce beat them yes, and it was pretty, but it was kind of like the Bucs and Mike Evans picking on our decimated secondary in 2022. Someone (Wilks) went down for allowing that to happen and they went down in LA too. Wr aren’t as good as a whole lot of homers think we are. Shore up the trenches. I think too many fans buy into it because they are so starved for anything that looks like a winner.

I think if McD had been where he was when he went to be a HC, development wise, and had time traveled to be hired in 2011, we would have been better over the long haul. It is just speculation, so big deal.

And it was about time. Precious little had been done. Scourton and Princely last year. A 2nd and a 3rd. That almost levels out what was spent on Bryce alone. Almost. So okay, you are caught up there. Not counting DJ and allowing a 3rd to wash that 2nd 2nd rounder we paid to draft him. Then, you can start with extra 1st and 2nds to tally that up. And further, if we spend the 19 on offense this year, it makes 5 straight years (!) of denying the defense a 1st round contributor. I don’t see how you can argue that and don’t know why you would.

We haven’t used a first on the defense since Bryce was here. And only one 2nd. If you look at what went into the offense, just to get Bryce alone was a fortune, they still owe that defense. And if Icky had not have happened I would be posting in caps that we need to spend the 1st pick on the D. It kills me not to do it, but that injury shifted everything.

He is a beast. Everyone has given up on him though. .

Most of what I see it would be nice to trade back a few slots and still get. I want to put the investment into the fronts though. That is where the game is controlled. People seem to want to make Bryce into a Stafford or something. Air Young. He is a game manager. People want to give him all this help, but if you really want to help him then build a team that can support a game manager. That means control the LOS, first order of business.

the job isn’t finished. We are paper thin on OL and the cupboard is bare for the future, as well. It screams for a quality T in the draft. If the opportunity is there, passing on one in favor of a pass catcher would be a mistake. IMO.

Cat fight?

Maybe that 1st rounder can boost him up to 130-140 yards.

Regardless, the first priority should be to protect him because we have seen what happens if they don’t. He gets a free pass. People telling me how we need weapons, I am not saying don’t get any weapons. I am saying enough with the 1st round weapons. If the QB is good and is protected, he should elevate a later round WR. The coaching staff should be able to put him in advantageous positions. And I mean how many targets are we talking about anyway? To spend a 1st round pick on a player we use on less than half the plays, or a player who will be an every down contributor? Take a guy guy later.

I recall the abysmal job Bryce did as a rookie. I recall the excuses made that we can’t evaluate him because he had no protection. This is the most important year to evaluate him, and as I say that I can’t believe people still need to do that, but they do. I can see the excuses again, if he is not protected. That is the most important thing in front of us, make sure he is protected.

They did have the ball with a chance for OT. It was brutal.

Morgan seems to get it. Let’s hope he can stand his ground against the finesse football people.

Give me someone up front, either side of the ball, over WR. Or TE. At 19.

She is like one of those girls that can be your buddy too. Goes anywhere, fits with your guy friends and your sports obsession. I had that once. Which be careful about that. And I used to want a girl who loved to fish, until I realized I got no more alone time in the boat which is a great benefit to having one. Space. She is pretty cool though and seems like she has a thing for Luke.

Yes he is. That is really why they moved up to get him. IMO.

I think the best thing that could happen for us this year would be for Pickett to have to play and do better than Bryce. Maybe that would give them the cover to upgrade the position.

We saw the truth in the third game of his rookie year when Reich started Dalton vs Seattle. The offense had looked horrible the first two weeks and Andy made it look like an NFL game. Right out of the gate.

I keep saying it and no one agrees I guess, but a excellent pass catching running back would be a better place to spend those targets than a TE.

When they say they are building it around what he does well, they are basically saying they are limiting the playbook.

My thing is why does it have to be round one? I really don’t mind taking a receiver later, I understand the need. And the recent salary explosion for WRs make it a matter of practicality as much as an overindulgement of a midget QB. A little easier to stomach. I have bitched for years about the defense being shorted but I saw the reasoning last year with Tet, he was not a forced pick. Defense would have been. So no complaints or rants were made. But enough is enough. Get a receiver somewhere else besides 19, there will be a number of guys that can help us there as much as a WR. I mean, do people think a rookie WR is gonna come out and light it up with Bryce throwing to them in this offense? It took him 6 games to throw Tet a TD pass, in case people forgot. If we had a better QB he could have run away with OROY.

Lol or those fat ones on the internet saying they deserve a billionaire and won’t settle for less. Canales irritated me in the recent interview that was posted by saying we are good now. A good team. A winning team. All it takes is an 8-10 record and he is saying poo like that? I don’t like it. Stay humble.

What are people gonna say about their starting QB, that isn’t positive? In public. These things, they know the players are gonna see it. Here is the way I think it is behind the scenes: every effort is made to help Young succeed. That is what they would, ostensibly, do for any QB. He has shown some high ability, but has shown way too much inconsistency. Too much poor play. He has to raise his floor to the level that you gonna get good Bryce 90% of the time. Not 35-40% (if that), which does not cut it. If he can’t deliver they will make a hard decision.

Yeah I corrected myself. I think the conservative bird in the hand strategy works for me. The WRs getting 40 mil contracts is a big influence on that. We have a proven guy, just leave it be. My answer on the part I misunderstood was about the same - only if QB is in play. Which Cam Ward is what he is, I rate Mendoza above him. And Bryce.