(02-02-2023, 09:45 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(02-02-2023, 09:34 AM)Caldrac Wrote: I agree. I cited that earlier in this thread with McGlinchey and Wirfs. They're probably looking at $96M+ overall for the long haul. Which makes sense. Those guys are former first round picks, lived up to the hype, played on Superbowl caliber rosters, elite across the board, etc. 

Taylor's not one of those guys and if he's getting $10M per year I am willing to bet it's a short term contract and not a long haul deal. Would probably be a two year deal at the most by a team looking to push deep into the play-offs. 

Which is risky as a player because if you get injured during that two year contract and you're free to walk after that your value could take a massive [BLEEP]. 

I don't see any team offering him a four year deal worth close to or more than $40M though. That's just too much for a guy that's shown you "some" improvement after three years of stinking it up and also resulting in this team having to take a chance on Walker Little with a 2nd RD pick just two years ago.

Trevor makes every single offensive lineman look better than they actually are.

I'm ok moving on from Taylor but I also agree with others that Little looks far better at LT which leaves us with an odd situation in Robinson.

Yep. That's Baalke's biggest turd in the teal colored punch bowl so far. Major bummer. Little should have a fair shake at competing for the LT job this summer. I don't know if Robinson can play RT but you could probably get away with plugging his [BLEEP] in at Guard and then drafting another RT.

Just can't get out of that contract yet with Robinson. [BLEEP] happens. I tried being reasonable with Baalke's thinking around that time. It's fair. I don't think he panicked. I think he did his homework and if he felt one of those lineman prospects was good enough to start right away he would have probably selected one of them over Travon Walker. 

I don't know how Ekwonu, Neal & Cross faired over a full season. But, they were on decent teams for sure. Carolina was decent in spite of shaky QB play and a midseason coaching change. The Giants made a nice little run and overachieved just like we did. Seattle as well. 

Those three guys must have played a role in all of that.

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