(07-07-2023, 08:41 AM)wg171 Wrote: I agree Ridley may be the teams top priority. However, I wouldn’t want to wait too long to extend Trevor. The less he accepts the more SB’s he will have the opportunity to win.

The following may very well be playing their final year with the Jags…
- Robinson
- Allen
- Engram
- Williams
- Griffin

Seems to be a very strong agreement on the board that pass rush and slot corner/nickel are the biggest areas of concern. Yet Baalke did little to address these.

Griffin is already gone. Robinson was gone and on borrowed time for awhile now. Engram may be expendable if Ridley turns out being the guy. You can only spread the football around to so many players out there. Strange being selected in the 3rd RD also does not bode well for Engram's long term future here.

Allen, for me personally, he would have to set the world on fire this year for me to care about keeping him beyond 2023. As that 2017 defense began to fall apart due to locker room cancer, ego and age. Allen failed miserably in stepping up to backfill the primary roles that guys like Ngakoue and Campbell played. 

I know people like to throw the PFF grades at me and use that "Well, it's not all about sacks, etc". Okay, sure. Whatever you need to say to make yourself feel better at night. If Josh Allen was as good as people kept painting him out to be? We wouldn't have wasted a first round pick on Chaisson and we wouldn't have probably had to drop the number one overall pick on Travon Walker last year. Allen has been serviceable, but, not a consistent enough game breaking presence that opponents fear on a weekly basis. 

Darious Williams is an interesting loss if it happens. He was used in the nickel last year and then eventually placed outside where he needed to be to begin with to succeed. Only hope is that Braswell out of Rutgers shines enough as a rookie to develop nice and easy in 2023 and he potentially sneaks into the starting line-up and quietly does his job well enough for nobody to notice. 

I'll tell you another thing that people tend to forget about. Tyson Campbell. He's another guy we'll have to extend. The fact that his coverage ability has improved IN SPITE of lack luster pass rush and push up front tells me that HE SHOULD BE the guy you save your money for on defense to resign more than anybody else.

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