(04-15-2020, 09:35 AM)Kane Wrote:

(04-14-2020, 11:13 PM)Bullseye Wrote: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news...agovailoa/

I like Tua, but I know people would be livid with this.

That's awful... trading up and using 20 to draft Tua?

I get that Minshew wasn't perfect by any means... but the amount of disrespect he is getting pre draft by the national media is a little confusing.


The only way I'm OK with drafting Tua is if he slides to 20. And even then.... IDK, I just think we should put more draft capital in building around Minshew and revisiting QB if necessary next year.
What if we draft Tua... and he isn't as good as people think? Or gets hurt again....
Then we are back at the drawing board for QB again? Or stuck with a first rounder we've buried draft capital in for at least 3 years....

Don't like the risk/reward of going QB this year with these guys. Much prefer the low risk high reward of putting pieces around a 6th round rookie QB's contract and seeing if we stuck gold.
Worst case scenario is we suck, like most people think we will no matter who the QB is, and we're in position to draft a guy next year if QB is indeed our biggest issue.

If Tua were healthy, I would be all for making that trade up, even with Minshew performing as he did last year.

But with his injury history, the risk would be too great to move up using both 9 and 20, especially in a year where teams can't conduct physicals.

Now by building with pieces around Minshew, there is the risk that the team would be just good enough to put us out of range for the two top QBs next year.

But that is more than offset by the advantage of being able to get a better picture in what we have with Minshew and to dissuade either of the top 2 QBs next year from pulling an Elway or Eli Manning on us next year.

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(04-15-2020, 01:22 PM)Rico Wrote:

(04-15-2020, 01:18 PM)Bullseye Wrote: Agreed. 

Not a fan of Epenesa.

Heck with this draft, Ruggs is still on the board.  If we took Tua at 9, why not pair him with Ruggs at 20?

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You beat me to it.  If we took Tua at 9 and Ruggs is there for us at 20, I don't know how I could pass him up.

I don't like the idea of trading up, but if he's there at nine I don't have a problem with them pulling the triggering.  Actually, I was listening to Teal the Podcast and Brunell says he gets the 'feeling' that not everybody in the Jaguars organization is as high on Minshew as most fans are.  So if that's the case and he's there at nine, I'd take him.  Let him sit a year...or at least a half a year depending on how the season plays out.

We are eye to eye here.

If you took Tua at 9 and start Minshew, you could still see what Minshew has to offer, give Tua extra time to heal, if needed and to develop slowly in a year where the anount of offseason prep is minimized due to the virus.

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