(02-04-2023, 08:04 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(02-04-2023, 10:33 AM)IKhan't Wrote: There is no way I re-sign Josh Allen next year. We drafted him thinking he was gonna be an elite pass rusher and although he's been good, he's certainly not been the player we thought he'd be. Ever since his rookie year, he's been a letdown. No doubt he's gonna command a very big contract, because edge rushers always get over-inflated deals. I don't want to commit big money to a player who has 1 or 2 big games each year and then disappears for the next 4-5 games at a time. It's time for us to admit, we were wrong about this guy (me included) and move on. That money could be used on better players. I'm hoping we find a stud edge rusher for the foreseeable future in this draft. There are some pretty good ones out there. We just need to finally identify the right one.

Ah the classic ol, lets let a good young player go at a premium position and hope we can just replace him in the draft LOL. Because that has worked out for us plenty of times before right? lolol

You don't replace young pass rushers, instead you continue to ADD more pass rushers around the guys you already have.

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(02-04-2023, 07:49 PM)IKhan't Wrote: He's not really good. He's good. He's also extremely inconsistent. That's been our problem for a long time on many areas within the defense, inconsistency. It's time to change that. I wouldn't waste cap money on inconsistent players. It's time to start "swinging for the fences" and looking for players we can center this defense around.

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Should it though? Walker is a 3-4 DE/4-3 DT playing out of position at 3-4 OLB/4-3 DE. Maybe if we actually move him to where he should be playing, we could maximize his potential.

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Which is why I would use 2-3 picks in this draft on O-Linemen. Create competition.

They just spent $200m in one free agency last year... I'd say that's swinging for the fences.

It hasn't worked out because we've been drafting the wrong guys. Maybe we'd better take a look at our scouting department and the guys in charge of drafting the players and make some changes then. All the successful teams in the NFL draft star players and add to the mixture via free agency. Kansas City drafted Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Nick Bolton, L'Jarius Sneed and Chris Jones. Philly drafted Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, Dallas Goedert, Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham. You build winning teams by drafting star players like this.  

You build a good team via the draft and then fill needs in free agency. That's how you keep a good core of players together. Just simply buying a bunch of expensive free agents only helps in the short term.

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