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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.

The emphasis on the age and stage of career these FA players are in is becoming pretty clearly a policy. I don’t remember us making that a core value, until Morgan.

I enjoyed this, from a Packers perspective. I think people are getting out over their skis on the enthusiasm over what we actually will get. I mean, it was a great move that we needed to make, but I see people talking about no falloff, there are high expectations. This guy isn’t sugar coating, but it isn’t necessarily all bad either. On the level of Walker’s play, he takes the view that it has fallen off, but has played very well before. I guess it epends on which one shows up, and I am hoping the old ‘change of scenery’ benefit could be in play.

True or not, I would only even consider him for a lot less money than he made this year. He has turned 30. And had that one fantastic year but his usual production isn’t really all that great. Looked at his yards per reception and they have been in decline annually for a bit. Fell off from SF 2024 13.x ypc to Wash 2025 10.1 ypc. 10.1 ypc is Bryce’s kind of number, so I wouldn’t think it likely to increase. If he is cheap enough and they think they will use him, I guess I am okay with it.

I think it was a thing for sure. Panthers weren’t too many people’s first choice. Or 5th choice. 2022 and 2023… coaches fired mid season. Consecutive years. You want any of that? He has definitely overseen a rehab of how the Panthers are perceived. Because we are a place that is seen as up and coming. And just the little thing of he accommodated Theilen so graciously, that gets noticed. It all adds up. Dan is doing a lot of things right, probably most things. Needs a good draft.

If we had someone that good at returns, they would be on the field doing something else. WR or RB.

My not so well made point was I am out on 1st round WR yet again… out on 1st round TE. If we were to go offense day 1 or day 2, I don’t know if there is a C worthy of it but tossed it in there because we should probably draft one. OT, QB … and I know it won’t be QB. Defensive line. Maybe S. Maybe ILB.

Yeah if we don’t draft C OT or QB forget offense high.

Some random cherry picking here too. I think I want to say Dan is going to be really good. Continue to be. This thing with Phillips is his injury risk. They took a pretty big chance. But the talent is there. His thinking is good. He learns pretty quickly, we lost out last year with our big FA swing, he did not lose out this year. He seems to be handling Tepper very well, that in itself is a feat. All the people were are signing are young still. Big windows for them compared to 29 and 30 year olds. He will have on odd older one here and there but I bet you it will be a small deal, or a one year deal. To me that is a new way of doing business. And is is a good policy. It looks like he is building a good team, methodically. After this FA period, this could be be a very interesting draft.

I am not reading into Brooks’ situation off of this. As far as what have to work with I believe a pass catching RB helps more than a pass catching TE. Also we need a short yardage hammer. If it is the same guy, okay. Ideally the alternate RB can do a lot of that. The catching.

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