With the 1st Pick in the 2026 Draft....

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. I don't love any of these prospects but prospects I haven't loved have turned out great before.

if we move from bryce you have to choose one regardless, maybe not in the first but you have to get some new blood in here asap, this vet option that people are throwing around is destined to be a poo show here

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

Just have NFL level skills, only spend 1 pick on them and then pray. 

Yep, pretty much. That's basically what it boils down to. There's always going to be a crap shoot element to it.

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Later round QB I would consider is Sam Leavitt. Good size, good arm and delivers in crunch time. 

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, scratched said:

Later round QB I would consider is Sam Leavitt. Good size, good arm and delivers in crunch time. 

We need multiple QBs. I wouldn't be opposed to taking the Redskins approach where they drafted RG3 high and then followed that up taking Cousins in the 4th. When you don't have a QB you can't leave any stone unturned. Obviously don't force it like Gettleman spam drafting CBs but if the opportunity presents itself just do it.

[LinvilleGorge]

A lot of folks dunked on the skins at the time for it (pretty sure I did) but ultimately that approach proved correct with how it panned out. RG3 was looking really good then got derailed by injury and then damned if Cousins didn't prove to be a great mid-round pick. Hats off. Well played.

[scratched]

8 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We need multiple QBs. I wouldn't be opposed to taking the Redskins approach where they drafted RG3 high and then followed that up taking Cousins in the 4th. When you don't have a QB you can't leave any stone unturned. Obviously don't force it like Gettleman spam drafting CBs but if the opportunity presents itself just do it.

I agree we need multiple QBs, I just don't think we need to draft multiple QBs. I'd rather try and sign a few vets and a late round QB. Chances are high that whoever starts the 1st game next season will be a stop gap QB for us. I'm looking at making the QB splash the following year with either a big FA QB or drafting our hopeful future starter.

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, scratched said:

I agree we need multiple QBs, I just don't think we need to draft multiple QBs. I'd rather try and sign a few vets and a late round QB. Chances are high that whoever starts the 1st game next season will be a stop gap QB for us. I'm looking at making the QB splash the following year with either a big FA QB or drafting our hopeful future starter.

I would research the poo out of the first rounders and pick one there and fuging sit his ass for half the year at least.  Sign a shitty vet to roll out there and just let the pick sit.  There is no harm in that.  Its going to suck to use another pick on a qb instead of defense but you cannot win in the nfl without a consistent qb and you need to get that clock started

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, scratched said:

I agree we need multiple QBs, I just don't think we need to draft multiple QBs. I'd rather try and sign a few vets and a late round QB. Chances are high that whoever starts the 1st game next season will be a stop gap QB for us. I'm looking at making the QB splash the following year with either a big FA QB or drafting our hopeful future starter.

Keep all options open is all I'm saying. Seems like "next year's class" is always the one. I mean, the narrative going into this year was that this was going to be a great QB draft and now it's just not looking like that's panning out on the college field but we'll see. In a few years looking back maybe it is.

[Waldo]

8 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Keep all options open is all I'm saying. Seems like "next year's class" is always the one. I mean, the narrative going into this year was that this was going to be a great QB draft and now it's just not looking like that's panning out on the college field but we'll see. In a few years looking back maybe it is.

I agree. Maybe there are no vets that fit what we want to do either.  Maybe find one vet and draft 2 should be on the table for us. 

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[Navy_football]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Right now we have a top 10 pick LT who is showing improvement as a pass protector, two top tier guards, an aging but still top shelf RT, a top 10 pick at WR, a proven veteran RB. I mean, the cupboard is far from bare. Drop rookie Cam on this roster and it's probably similar results. 6ish wins and overall competitive but the D usually finds a way to give up more points than we can score.

I hear you, but...

Ickey is nothing like Gross. Chuba is nothing like Stewart and Williams. I like Tremble, but he ain't close to Greg or Shockey for that matter. All pro Center that could call the protection. Smitty... TMac has shown potential but he isn't the playmaker Smitty was. Not yet anyway. A very good defense that needed the ILB to bring it together after Beason blew his achilles in the first game. Insert Luke in 2012. This team doesn't have a WR that threatens deep. Still need that guy. Too many holes to drop another rookie QB in. Not just offensively, but defensively too. Hard to ask a rookier QB to get into shootouts every game with this receiving corp. 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

I agree. Maybe there are no vets that fit what we want to do either. Ecem find one vet and draft 2 should be on the table for us. 

Yeah, I just don't think approaching an off-season with a definitive plan of how you're going to address a position is smart. Maybe you aren't able to land the free agent(s) that you wanted. Maybe the guy you wanted in the draft isn't there for you. There's a lot of things that are going to happen that are largely out of your control and you gotta be ready to roll with the punches.

[Waldo]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, I just don't think approaching an off-season with a definitive plan of how you're going to address a position is smart. Maybe you aren't able to land the free agent(s) that you wanted. Maybe the guy you wanted in the draft isn't there for you. There's a lot of things that are going to happen that are largely out of your control and you gotta be ready to roll with the punches.

Yup. Who the vet is, at what cost and who they can draft is way too fluid. It damn sure shouldn't be Dalton that's all I know. 

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[PNW_PantherMan]

9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Keep all options open is all I'm saying. Seems like "next year's class" is always the one. I mean, the narrative going into this year was that this was going to be a great QB draft and now it's just not looking like that's panning out on the college field but we'll see. In a few years looking back maybe it is.

Sometimes you should just take what falls in your lap.  Jaycee Horn is a good player, but I still would have drafted Justin Fields or Mac Jones.  Yeah they both busted, but just using the 8th overall pick isn't that bad vs trading up.  We had 2 first round prospects fall into our pick and we passed it up.

I don't think either one would have worked out, but it's like the butterfly effect.  We never would have traded for Darnold.  We would have gotten another high pick to use on a QB after those guys didn't work out.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Sometimes you should just take what falls in your lap.  Jaycee Horn is a good player, but I still would have drafted Justin Fields or Mac Jones.  Yeah they both busted, but just using the 8th overall pick isn't that bad vs trading up.  We had 2 first round prospects fall into our pick and we passed it up.

I don't think either one would have worked out, but it's like the butterfly effect.  We never would have traded for Darnold.  We would have gotten another high pick to use on a QB after those guys didn't work out.

I would've absolutely taken a chance on Fields and I would've been wrong but I was always a loud Mac Jones dissenter. He just obviously didn't have NFL tools IMO. He was Kenny Pickett before Kenny Pickett.