(04-09-2022, 04:53 PM)I am Yoda Wrote:

Quote:The O-Line Matters wrote:

No, I didn't. I thought he really was on the trade block. That sucks. Not that we would've traded for him anyway. 

I'd love Dotson, but we'd have to trade up to get him. No way he gets passed Green Bay and Kansas City.

I'm convinced the first 6 best WRs will be gone by 33.  Wilson, London, Williams, Olave, Burks, Dotson, and maybe Moore will all be taken.  Nothing I've seen out of Pederson and Baalke leads me to believe they would be bold enough to trade back up into the 1st.  And I'm not sure it would be best for the construction of the roster anyway.  It will take a lot of draft capital to move up.  You're easily trading the possibility of 4 or more contributors to move up for the WR you may covet.  At this stage in the rebuild, I don't think that's necessarily wise.

I wouldn't be shocked if the reached for Trey MacBride at 33.  The value chart may say you should only draft him in the lower half of the second.  We might possibly trade down if we can find a partner.  But if he's your guy and you can't find a partner, I wouldn't crucify them for taking him.  I think we can find value in round 3 for a WR.  And since I think we still need to find 2 IOL and a LB, we may have to prioritize pass catcher lower even if that means we don't get the TE or WR we really covet.  To me nothing is more important than fixing the OL.  And as it stands at the moment, it's not fixed.

I just hope we don't ruin Trevor Lawrence's confidence, because we won't provide him with any decent receivers. We finally have a good QB and we should be doing everything necessary to get good players to throw to and we've failed miserably. 

I agree that we need to find a Center and another Interior O-Lineman in the draft to compete with Bartch for the other OG spot. I also think we'll take a TE relatively high since that position plays so prominently in Pederson's offense and Engram is only on a 1 year deal. Inside linebacker is something I believe we will draft, but probably more on the 3rd day. IMO, getting a pass catcher, both WR and TE has to be priority #1, if we don't wanna ruin Trevor Lawrence before he even has a chance to show what he can do. Personally, I can live with the O-Line as it stands now, as long as we draft a franchise Center. That would give us Robinson, Bartch, Rookie Center, Scherff and Little. That's a lot better than what we had last season. Not everything is gonna get fixed on a long term basis this season. I'm hoping we use our 2023 first round pick on getting a franchise LT, since I'm counting on that LT class to be much better than this one.

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