(10-25-2020, 04:41 PM)iHaunting Raven Wrote:

(10-25-2020, 04:12 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: As close to a sure thing as you can get. Joeckel was never a sure thing. I HATED that pick. At that time, the coaching staff at Texas A&M recruited the same type of OT's over and over. They all displayed good feet and quickness, but they all lack functional strength and get torn apart by bull rushers. Anybody that watched college football at the time should've known that. Gallery was the same way. I don't even remember Jason Smith, so he couldn't have been too hyped. 

We wouldn't be set with Watson. By the time we had a team around him, he'd be broken. Besides, we're not trading for Watson and there is no Watson clone in the 2021 draft. 

QB is not always greater than LT. You have to look at the players as individuals. Sewell is hands down, the #2 player in the next draft. Period! You always draft BAP. Drafting for need will kill a franchise. We're already near death. 

We may not find the right one in 2022 or 2023, but it's better than reaching on some overrated QB in 2021 and passing on what appears to be the best LT to enter the draft in many years.
You always take the best player. Never reach.

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Then that means we hired an idiot as the new GM.

So you already know Lance and Fields will be mediocre and Sewell a pro bowler? I am guessing you would have said the same thing if you were a Browns fan and they would have drafted Mahomes #1 and passed on Garrett...

I watch a lot of college football. A lot. I just call'em how I see them. I don't see anything that makes me think Fields translates to the NFL other than the athleticism. Lance is a one year starter in a tiny school. That's waaaaaaaaaay to risky to take him in round 1. I really like what I see in Sewell. Is he a pro bowler? Maybe. I don't know, but given what I've seen from him in college, I believe he will be very good. Isn't that what evaluations are about? Watching them in college and seeing how they might translate?

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