regardless of what the contract situation is now with Monroe and Baltimore I still don't like the trade. We went from a top 10 LT sure you'd have to pay him to keep him, to an unproven rookie.

 

We took a position of strength and gambled with an unknown. This team has SO many holes to fill what was the point? Was drafting Joeckel all about avoiding paying Monroe then?

 

Drafting Joeckel was supposed to be about having 2 premium tackles going forward, let's not pretend Pasturz is a premium tackle he did a solid job filling in but that just goes to show tacking a tackle at 2 last year was pointless. We could've kept Monroe, still plugged in Pasturz and used that top pick on a position of need, like the pass rush.

 

It's water under the bridge but lets not white wash history, to say the people objecting to the trade where just being "sour" is dishonest, there are real issues to be had with how the Monroe situation was handled.

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