(03-23-2021, 08:14 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(03-22-2021, 04:26 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: What difference does it make????? I used Mahomes as the example of an established QB. The QB's in this scenario are interchangeable. I could've used Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Ben Roethlisberger, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Ryan Tannehill, Derek Carr, Justin Herbert, Daks Prescott, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousins, Matt Ryan, Tom Brady or Russell Wilson. Any established QB would've worked in this scenario. Mahomes was just the first one that popped into my mind. The point being that when you have a position with established starters already established for the foreseeable future, you don't spend first round picks on that position, because you're just drafting for depth. When you are 1-15, you spend high picks to add potential good starters, not backups.

For the record, this is an example of spoon feeding you concepts you should already know. The names used in scenarios are generic, it's the big picture that you are completely missing.

So you are asserting that someone like Barmore wouldn't make Doug Costin, Alualu expendable? Cripes, I'd venture that he might push every last one of the guys in that group down a spot on the depth chart.

In two years, a lot of those bandaids we just signed aren't going to be here. Are you alleging that Barmore is on the level of Taven Bryan - In three years, doomed to the roster bubble? Or is this just that you are so fixated on darfting an OL that any other possibility is the equivalent to chugging a gallon of soured milk?

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Absolutely right.

At two of the four DL we signed/traded for were NOT starters when we signed them.  Alualu was never overly good in the first place, and now he's 34.  Maybe some of these guys can surprise, but I can only look to Malcolm Brown and see a proven, legitimate starter.  Although Barmore has had his inconsistencies in college, I see him as more of a prospect than a Taven Bryan, who was taken at a similar point in the draft, or for that matter, Tyson Alualu, who was taken freaking 10th overall.

I'm still unsure if taking Barmore would be the right thing given our new franchise QB and the state of our tackles.  But I disagree with the assertion Barmore would be a "horrible" pick, especially since we have two more picks in close proximity to that 25th overall.

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