(03-23-2021, 09:10 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

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

I’ve said since the Jags secured the top pick, that I am drafting heavy offense in this draft. That doesn’t mean I’m “reaching” for an offensive player if the defensive player is of greater value but if I’m looking at Barmore or Jenkins, I’m going Jenkins. 

We have to give Trevor protection and weapons to be the best QB he can be this year and going forward.

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