Post-Draft: Gantt sets A stage, not THE stage. Perhaps Reset Your Expectations

[NCBlu]

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If you have a sub-.500 team and your 1st and 2nd rounders (honestly, I'd go as deep as 3rd rpund) aren't getting very significant playing time in their rookie season you done fuged up.

Biggest needs heading into off-season:

LT Edge ILB FS

Top FA pick up:

LT Edge ILB resigned FS

Top NEEDS/ Starter headed into NFL Draft:

DL FS

[RJK]

It has been pretty goofy watching people just pencil in Hecht and Wheatley as starters  like late rounders are plug and play 

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, NCBlu said:

Biggest needs heading into off-season:

LT Edge ILB FS

Top FA pick up:

LT Edge ILB resigned FS

Top NEEDS/ Starter headed into NFL Draft:

DL FS

Biggest need was, and remains, QB.

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, RJK said:

It has been pretty goofy watching people just pencil in Hecht and Wheatley as starters  like late rounders are plug and play 

C I can understand, people seem to really, really love Hecht (and to be fair his Senior tape is sensational). S I'm more dubious about, Evero seems to love him some Nick Scott and we're obviously not benching Moehrig as he's one of our best players.

[strato]

1 hour ago, RJK said:

It has been pretty goofy watching people just pencil in Hecht and Wheatley as starters  like late rounders are plug and play 

Canales said we don’t draft for depth, but we surely are doing that. Starters in waiting so to speak.  
I don’t mind that. They say for every rookie you start you take one loss, rule of thumb. 
I think we should get nice bumps from Lloyd and Phillips and am expecting to see a better Scourton. He was very young for a starter - he was 20 when we drafted him, turned 21 in late August. Not even finished growing.  
You have the secondary with a good year together, I thought there were some communication issues or blown assignments early last year that should be well worked out by the start of the schedule. 
I am not real worried about the defense.  Hopefully they can get the young guys worked in by the home stretch and be a decent D. 
 

I definitely see some red flags with the offense. This line will likely take some time to gel. And more than I am thinking if they decide to go with Freeling. 
The running backs, we just don’t know what half of them are and they depend on that line too. And half that we do know, well Chuba obviously fell off last year and we don’t know if that was just from injury or an overall decline. We like to think injury and hope he is healthy this year, but who knows. 

If Idzik and Bevell add a lot of new stuff that could come with growing pains. 
And if we add in the annual ‘damn, I really suck at this’ start from Young, it could be a slow start for the offense.  

 

Edited 6 hours ago by strato

[strato]

14 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Biggest need was, and remains, QB.

I felt like it was the OL, closely followed by QB. And today, in the present, yeah QB. He has limited us so much. 
I am looking forward to see what adjustments Bevell brings, and what Idzik does. Will they be able to get more out of him?