(02-21-2019, 08:27 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(02-21-2019, 07:59 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I'm not gonna be very happy if we cut Hyde. It's not because I like him that much, it's because it means we basically flushed a 5th round pick right down the toilet. If we didn't intend to keep him, why did we trade for him? When we traded for him we were 3-4 and things looked bleak. Did this front office actually believe a RB was the key to turning things around? If so, we've got the wrong people running this team. We could've just picked up a free agent RB and kept our pick. Not only that, but Yeldon and Grant are free agents. If we cut Hyde, that basically leaves us with Fournette and Rawls as the only viable RB's on the roster and we all know, Fournette should not be counted on to play a full season at this point. Luckily, this is a fantastic RB draft class. I don't advocate using a pick on a RB, because we have too many other needs, but there will be some very, very good RB's available as UDFA's. If we cut Hyde, we're gonna need to be aggressive immediately after the draft and bring in 2-3 RB's from this talented class. In fact, I would say RB and O-Line should be our main priority, when it comes to UDFA's.

This front office made the trade for Hyde because nobody knew how long Fournette was going to out. Grant got put on IR and Yeldon was our only other RB, who just so happened to be nursing an ankle injury at the time as well.

They plucked David Williams off of the Broncos practice squad and signed FA Jamaal Charles. The RB position was in complete shambles when they made the trade.

I'm not saying it was a good trade or anything like that, but that's why they made it.

I still think it was a horrible idea to trade a 5th round pick, if they were only gonna keep him for that season. You don't just throw away draft picks like that. We acquired him 7 games into the season. By then, we knew our O-Line had problems and the running game is only as good as the O-Line. Yes, we suffered key injuries to the O-Line after Hyde was acquired, but the O-Line had problems before that. On top of that, he was barely used with us. He never had more than 13 carries in a game, after we got him. Most games, he only totaled single digit carries. Why spend a 5th round pick on a guy if we barely use him?

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