(03-21-2021, 05:15 AM)BristolianJaguar Wrote: Black And Teal, I am not sure where i stand on the TE now. It’s a real need. I think our back office may have really missed in FA. Letting Smith and Henry slip from our grasp. But I am not sure Freiermuth has value at 33 which is where we will have to take him to prevent him going before 45.

O-Line, OT is by far our biggest need after QB. Really listening to interviews with Meyer, Baalke and other staff I don’t think the office view this as such a need - I highly disagree. I don’t think this is some tactic either to discourage other teams about our plans. There is always that trade off between hiding plans and keeping current players happy, they have swayed to much towards the latter that picking OL will create a bad atmosphere in that room which is exactly what Meyer doesn’t want.

I fear you are right and it makes me have zero confidence in this front office and coaching staff. If they cannot see the obvious, we don't stand a chance. This is a very good draft class for OT's. Next year may not be the same and I don't wanna reach for an OT in 2022 that would only be a slight upgrade over the crappy OT's we have now. We had a perfect chance to bring in Riley Reiff, who would've been a solid upgrade over Robinson and a HUGE upgrade over Taylor. Instead, we let the Bengals steal him for 1 year $7.5 million and we'll end up paying Robinson in the neighborhood of $14 million on that franchise tag in 2021 to be a significantly worse player.

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