(01-22-2022, 09:17 AM)Upper Wrote:

(01-22-2022, 07:04 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Tag Robinson at LT. Make him compete with your 2nd RD investment in Little for the job from last year. Loser of that battle then takes on Taylor for his job at RT. Loser of that battle goes to Guard or ends up on the trading block, if the rumors are true that Taylor is too prideful to make the move. 

I'm all for competition when it's true competition and not the Tlaw/Minshew joke from last year, but if there is anything we've learned about the playing LT/RT dynamic it's that it can easily be done but it takes some time to transition. Letting them battle for LT and then having Cam switch over (because make no mistake Little is better) with less time to prepare for the position is not wise to me.

In like 4 total games last year Little had two starts better than any Cam had in 5 years. Day 1 of the franchise tag window I tag Cam and tell him to start working on RT. He'll raise hell because no one wants to get tagged twice and no one wants to switch positions in a contract year, so we'll tell him he can look for trade partners and we'll agree not to tag him again. But no one will offer a quality RT in trade so he's left without any options and plays RT for us for a season before moving on.

Then we draft one of the Raimann/Kinnard/Faalele trio at 33 or Mitchell at 65 or 70 and let them develop to be our RT of the future.

That's my plan.

That's a similar path I would take. However. I don't think you would even have to invest that 2nd RD or a 3rd RD pick on a guy to develop at RT. I think there's some good prospects to be had in the 4th RD. Kellen Diesch from Arizona State, Tyler Vrabel from Boston College (Mike Vrabel's son, btw) or even my boy out of Georgia, Jamaree Salyer. He might rise though due to the National Championship win. One more guy I like is Luke Goedeke out of Central Michigan as well. 

Good chance one of those guys listed above is there at 97 or 142. Also, they have 12 picks in total in this draft so far. A pair of 3rd RD pick's and then four additional picks in the 6th RD with another pair of selections in RD7. Good chance they can package up a few of those picks to sneak back into RD3 to get a guy they like with starting potential.

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