This is draft week ! There are a few players that have been run up the flagpole on this board for our first pick. (if we don't trade) They represent 2 positions, offensive line or edge rusher. The majority of the posters appear to be sold on the premise if we get a high caliber edge rusher it will help Treavor because the other team will not score and put us behind at the beginning of the game. I do not believe this. I do not believe that was the major defect we had as a team last year. Our offense ranked dead last in points per game at 14.2ppg, we need to be averaging almost double that. The defect we had is we could not score. The NFL has changed, it is like basketball on grass. You need a defense yes, but more importantly you need to score points. Teams were not concerned about the Jags scoring on them.

What defects did our offense have last year?

Receivers - our receivers were undisciplined, ran routes inconsistently if they even ran the correct ones. They could not get separation and when they did get open had trouble catching the ball. This has been addressed in free agency to an extent but needs more attention in the draft.

Tight Ends - We did not have tight ends that could contribute much to the offense until we got Arnold. Then he was injured. This has been addressed on a short term basis for only one year. We need to get a developmental candidate in the draft if the current players cannot be "coached up" sufficiently.

Offensive Line - Our offensive line while statistically did well, could not when it counted. If a team wanted to get to our quarterback in a pivotal situation they could, not allowing the patterns to develop. We added a guard for 50 million/3years. If we do not see Cam as being our left tackle for the next 5-7 years AND be willing to give him more than Scherff we need to address this with our first pick. I don't care if the guy plays guard next year before moving to tackle. I would want someone capable of playing either tackle for us after Cam is gone. Now this would really be helping our QB, receivers and running backs. This would also help our defense as the offense may stay on the fireld early in games and not 3 and out. The O-line is where it all starts. We are one or 2 injuries away from depending on Jawaan Taylor.

Defense - We ranked 28th in points allowed at 27 ppg. We need to drop that by 5-7 ppg this year. If our offense can stay on the field a bit more it will get us at least half of that. The Jags ranked 20th in defense (17th passing 24th run) . My opinion they were about equally good in both. Teams got ahead due to our offensive not being able to score and ran the clock in the second half. We ranked 31st in time of possession due to our offense not being able to move the ball when the other team put the clamps on them. This put our defense on the field way to much with the other team in good field position. We can pick up a scary guy to pair with Josh later in the draft. They are there it is a deep draft. We also need depth big time on defense. We have the draft capital to do this too.

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