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Mission this offseason was to fix the trenches..

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Oline upgrades and pass rush help so far..

With the best trench draft in years coming.. My money is on adding more players to both lines..

I agree with this plan and thought it was needed before the offseason started.. I hope Hurney is able to finish it out without getting side track by some skill position player ..  I like the idea of a hybrid system and I hope they add some young pieces in the draft to make that happen..

What do you guys think so far with this objection in mind??

#year of the trenches..

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I am really pumped about the moves so far. They could always go south on us, like most of last year's free agents did but on paper this is looking like a really great offseason of filling needs at reasonable prices. Even the Reid signing at a price people initially bitched about looks to be better than average once the market for safeties opened up. 

Lets keep the momentum up, though. If we can get a solid veteran at FS and maybe extend someone like Shaq to save some coin, this could be a damn good free agency.

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Hurney is going BPA.

all the mocks are crazy. Some have all the OT gone before us and the best pass rushers and leaving corners, safeties or 2nd tier, 2nd round pass rushers we would over draft.

some mocks have the opposite, but run on defensive,... several OT options, safeties etc.

bottom line is few know what’s going to be there at 16 that is worth the best choice so he’s plugging the holes.

BPA,.. could be a great corner or Safety, could be OT, DE, 3/4 OLB or 4-3 OLB—

get the best player,..

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1 minute ago, JARROD said:

Hurney is going BPA.

all the mocks are crazy. Some have all the OT gone before us and the best pass rushers and leaving corners, safeties or 2nd tier, 2nd round pass rushers we would over draft.

some mocks have the opposite, but run on defensive,... several OT options, safeties etc.

bottom line is few know what’s going to be there at 16 that is worth the best choice so he’s plugging the holes.

BPA,.. could be a great corner or Safety, could be OT, DE, 3/4 OLB or 4-3 OLB—

get the best player,..

That is what I love so much about the way we are making these signings. Filling needs and leaving us flexible enough to draft straight BPA. No panicked drafting of multiple players at the same position ala 2016 Draft.

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If we are going to go 3-4, I actually don’t mind how we are shaping up at OLB. But  we desperately need some beef on the line. I assume the starting 3 would be butler, Poe, Short. Then who? We literally don’t have anyone else. 

We need to at least throw vet min at a couple of these aging guys. Sylvester Williams? Muhammad Wilkerson? A warm body?

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23 minutes ago, JARROD said:

Hurney is going BPA.

all the mocks are crazy. Some have all the OT gone before us and the best pass rushers and leaving corners, safeties or 2nd tier, 2nd round pass rushers we would over draft.

some mocks have the opposite, but run on defensive,... several OT options, safeties etc.

bottom line is few know what’s going to be there at 16 that is worth the best choice so he’s plugging the holes.

BPA,.. could be a great corner or Safety, could be OT, DE, 3/4 OLB or 4-3 OLB—

get the best player,..

That's my problem with this thinking.. Maybe in other drafts this is true.. But this year your supposedly 2nd teir Dlinemen would be 1st teir in a weaker draft.. 

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Celine Ferrell last year and most of this year is a top 5 pick until other top 5 picks enter the draft.. This is the year you can get a top teir Dlinemen in the top 20 when in most years they would be gone in the top 10.. Because the draft is so unusually deep.. We should be able to get a day one starter on the In the trenches no matter what. 

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2 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I think I’d rather have DT first over LT. LT in this draft is not a certainty for any of the tackles. Most are RTs or might be Gs or “might” work at LT. I like a few of the day 2/early day 3 tackles who have potential but wouldn’t waste pick 16 as a backup or as a not good enough for LT. We don’t want a Luke Joechel, gotta try him at guard guy. I’d rather have Wilkins and be able to save a poo ton of cap next year. Short and Poe releases combine to open up $20-24m, yes $20-24m in cap space and we are already at $47m in cap space (with Paradis and without Kalil). We’d be over $70m without those two so I won’t mind Wilkins at all.

I know DT is a need but edge rusher is bigger now.. I also think getting rid of Short or Poe is a next year move. 

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1 minute ago, stbugs said:

Based on our visits, I’d bet Sweat or Wilkins at 16 and Adderley or Risner at 46 and a tackle in the 3rd. Definitely don’t know who will be there, but it’s seems like DL, S or OL, OL/DL the rest of the way with CB sprinkled in somewhere. 

I think Ferrell is in the running as well as Oliver if they are there..

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Just now, stbugs said:

If Sweat isn’t there at 16, don’t be shocked if we switch to DE. We are looking heavily at DT and this is the draft to do that even if Short and Poe are next year cuts. We are down Love so far and Butler could be cut if we draft better.

This is a great DL class, not just Edge, but DT as well. 

Agree I think we can come away with both.. I just think "best case scenario" is starter edge rusher and development Dtackle .. Not the other way around..

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