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If you are Baalke, how would you play it next season?

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Easiest decisions for me off the top going forward are releasing Griffin and letting Taylor walk.

Figure out who is going over to RT between Cam/Little and find a new swing OT. Little is a starting OT in this league and he needs to play. Put that money it'd take to pay Taylor else where and hope we get a Comp pick in return for once.

Extend Josh Allen who's coming off a good year, but not a great year. I don't think you'd have to break the bank for him on a deal right now. Especially with spirits running high around the Franchise. Sure does sound like the players want to be there. Regardless we have him locked up on the 5th year option, but I think it'd be a mistake to not extend him now. Playing the "let him walk and just draft his replacement" game rarely works. You don't let a good young player go unless you already have a better replacement and we don't. I also think he's going to have an even better year next season and that'll just drive his price up.

Got to re-sign Engram. We don't have jack squat at TE on the roster and he's a good player. Best receiving threat at TE this team has ever had. I'm still drafting another TE to pair with him though.

I'd like to bring back Key as well, but those are my top priorities going into next season.

Can't go heavy on Free Agency simply because we don't have boat loads of $$$ like we usually do, but they'll need to bring in either a swing OT, or LG in Free Agency. The other should be acquired via the draft. I think I'd lean towards drafting a swing OT to develop and bring in a LG via FA to compete with Bartch, but a case could easily be made for either way. I think going with a LG in FA would give us a little more leeway in the draft though. Would let us draft a swing OT a little later on to develop, rather than needing an early pick LG to compete/play from day 1.

The main focus will definitely need to be on the draft and adding through it though. 9 total picks, with 5 in the first 4 rounds. In those 5 picks we need to come away with a (in no order) CB, TE, OT/OG, Pass Rusher (inside or outside, but ideally inside) for sure imo. You could then make the case for another Pass Rusher, another OG/OT (again a lot will depend on how FA plays out), or another WR among those first 5 picks. If they release Jenkins then you have to throw Safety into the mix as well.

Depending how the draft falls will heavily influence where the positions are acquired of course, but right now I think that 1st round pick is looking like Pass Rush, OL(would be a LG in this case) or TE. I think day 2 will be the sweet spot for our 3rd CB.
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RE: If you are Baalke, how would you play it next season? - by Eric1 - 02-16-2023, 11:48 PM



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