Would you draft a pass rusher or draft one?

[CPantherKing]

38 minutes ago, Lame Duck said:

We need ILB badly and another monster DE

We need an entire defense and a new DC

[Car123]

Sign. We don’t have time to wait for one to develop.

[kungfoodude]

I have seen some people say Hendrickson is a possibility to us in free agency.

I would hate to see what that costs.

[Moonraker]

19 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I have seen some people say Hendrickson is a possibility to us in free agency.

I would hate to see what that costs.

It would be so us to trade a young pass rusher for a cup of pudding only to realize we need one and sign an old, oft-injured one for similar $$

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, Moonraker said:

It would be so us to trade a young pass rusher for a cup of pudding only to realize we need one and sign an old, oft-injured one for similar $$

Trade? What manner of trade would we make for a free agent, exactly?

[Moonraker]

Just now, kungfoodude said:

Trade? What manner of trade would we make for a free agent, exactly?

I was referring to us trading Burns in the first part. 

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, Moonraker said:

I was referring to us trading Burns in the first part. 

Oooh. Lol. Right.

Well, the real mistake was not trading that scrub earlier.

[strato]

51 minutes ago, Car123 said:

Sign. We don’t have time to wait for one to develop.

Why? We have years to wait for the QB.
Three most important positions, LT, QB, sack artist. 
We wait years for one, but not the other two. 
 

I guess, for me, sign FA who do the meat and potatoes work. Draft the players who are gonna be cornerstones. Let them develop. Resupply every few seasons and keep filling in the right guard and the nickel back and centers etc. 

Best to draft them all but practically, you can’t 

Edited 2 hours ago by strato

[PleaseCutStewart]

Good news for us is that we pretty much need every position on defense... There should be a good player available for us at 19

[h0llywood]

Roughly ~2–5% of all drafted players become true elite pass rushers (multiple All-Pro or consistently top-tier), and ~8–15% make at least one Pro Bowl at pass rusher (heavily dependent on draft round). Chances we get lucky in the next 2 seasons are extremely low. We cry about our non existent pass rush then also cry when we are unwilling to trade for top tier talent. 

[bandu]

unless its a rare blue chip pass rusher top 5 or 10 then it normally takes on average at least 2 to 3 years for a pass rusher to fully develop in the NFL .its simply put a HUGE learning curve 

so do you want a pass rusher right now or 2 or 3 years from now ?  ...just saying 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by bandu

[Car123]

39 minutes ago, strato said:

Why? We have years to wait for the QB.
Three most important positions, LT, QB, sack artist. 
We wait years for one, but not the other two. 
 

I guess, for me, sign FA who do the meat and potatoes work. Draft the players who are gonna be cornerstones. Let them develop. Resupply every few seasons and keep filling in the right guard and the nickel back and centers etc. 

Best to draft them all but practically, you can’t 

Next season feels like a make a run/high expectations season. We can’t afford to rely on a rookie pass rusher. We need a good veteran presence.

[rodeo]

We need a defensive QB at ILB. That was desperately missing this year, somebody like Luke to make adjustments and make sure everybody is on their assignment. 

[strato]

42 minutes ago, Car123 said:

Next season feels like a make a run/high expectations season. We can’t afford to rely on a rookie pass rusher. We need a good veteran presence.

I am not sure it should be a ‘sell out to go to the SB’ season. And hope they don’t think that. 

At the same time I was thinking you absolutely must find out if you want to pay for Bryce or not. That means putting it on him. No protecting and trying to hide weaknesses with the run game and super conservative calls. 
So I wish they would do it and find out, win or lose, 2026.
No more developing. Time to do it. Let’s see once and for all. 

Edited 1 hour ago by strato