Highly doubt it but if someone wants him they are fine to trade up.
its all a ploy to get manziel, matthews, and mike evans to pair with joeckel. then move the jaguars to texas.
I know I've already been on board with saying that Matthews is one of the few players that the Jags could take at 3 and actually have the talent back up the pick.
Thats said, I still want to trade down.
If we could somehow trade down to #6, take Matthews, then package some picks to get back into the first to take Manziel I'd jump on board.
Plan for every scenario as much as you can. We could be offered a monster deal to trade back and he's the best player sitting there. I'd be fine with him in a trade back scenario.
Matthews visiting tells me they're covering their bases for all of the players who may be available to them in the top 10. Read into it what you will, but I'm happy to see the team doing their due diligence with the top prospects in the event they need to move around.
I told you all about that article showing how the majority of draft picks were players that visited early in the process and especially ones that visited multiple times. If they were truly interested they would have paraded him through when they brought in the other elite prospects those two days two weeks ago. This is pretty clearly a simple smokescreen to me.
I said back in November the plan was to bring in Matthews and Manziel and got bashed. Haters gonna hate
Quote:I said back in November the plan was to bring in Matthews and Manziel and got bashed. Haters gonna hate
I think this is the kind of move where, if the Jags trade down, Matthews may have a higher value.
Quote:I said back in November the plan was to bring in Matthews and Manziel and got bashed. Haters gonna hate
How do you suggest we get both?
Quote:How do you suggest we get both?
Magic
Smokescreen. Dave wants the Rams to stay put and draft Matthews 2nd overall
Quote:How do you suggest we get both?
Quote:If we could somehow trade down to #6, take Matthews, then package some picks to get back into the first to take Manziel I'd jump on board.
"smokescreen"
LOL...
It would be dereliction of duty not to do your homework on the top prospects.
To those against the idea... say for the sake of argument, we've preliminarily selected Mack. The phone rings and in comes a trade we can't refuse, even though we're sold on Mack. Maybe it's ATL, who missed out on Clowney and don't want to do the same with Mack.
You never know what scenario you may be facing. If we were in the position to draft and he's available, they would need to have the information they need to make the right call. We could certainly use him at RT, and with the rookie scale, his big contract would be the second where he would be paid as a RT. So draft position isn't cost prohibitive if they think he's the BAP wherever we select. He didn't play LT until his senior year when Joeckel left for the NFL, and played the previous three at RT. He's certainly one of the top 3-5 guys available when we select, and may be the most "slam dunk" or "safe" of them all.
Mack, Watkins... Matthews could easily be the next guy on the list. Who knows, may be at the top of it. It would be hard not to get this pick right, there seems several ways to play it and still get it right.
If we draft an OL at 3 I may just stop watching football.
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Nah you wouldnt want that. Who would be here to educate you then?