(02-09-2018, 03:28 PM)TheSchmidt Wrote:

(02-09-2018, 02:37 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I'm saying I'd support a decision by the team to move ahead of Buffalo if there were a QB they deemed worthy of the pick(s).

I haven't analyzed what it would cost them to do so. But I'd support it if they don't get hosed from a typical trade value perspective.  I also think there will be some very intriguing prospects available at the Jags first and second round picks w/o having to move up. 

The main point I'm trying to emphasize is that developing QB talent rather than signing it changes the landscape of the Jags' salary cap situation and I wouldn't hesitate to take a guy early.

Wouldn't developing talent at positions on defense currently filled with high salary and older players be a more realistic move for the Jags salary cap situation than gambling on the most difficult position to find a long term solution for? 

If we're moving up in the draft, it'd have to be for Jackson, Allen, or Rudolph. Don't see how they can realistically get one of the other three without mortgaging the next 2-4 drafts. And I'm not comfortable giving up multiple picks for the first three guys I listed.

It's certainly an alternative, and they'll have to do it to some extent regardless, but I'm not eager to replace guys like Ngakoue, Ramsey, and Jack. I'd rather keep them than replace them. 

I'm also a little bit more optimistic about the crop of QBs coming out than you are apparently, so that colors my opinion differently.

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