(01-15-2024, 09:27 AM)jj82284 Wrote: It's worth noting, per termd o the trade.  If we sign ridley to an extension, we give Atlanta our 2nd round pick.  I don't know how that factors in tagging him and him not signing before the draft etc.  But that's a consideration.

If they wait until the new calendar year to extend him, which basically the first day of NFL free agency, we're only on the hook for a 3rd RD pick from my understanding. The only way they would have lost that 2nd RD pick is if they had signed him during the season or prior to the new calendar year.

We'll be good I think. The goal should be getting Josh Allen signed immediately while working something out with Ridley or potentially tagging him so you can get something done like they did with Engram last summer. They'll lose their 3rd RD pick in this case but they recouped a 3rd RD pick anyway when the Chiefs signed Taylor.

It's essentially a wash.

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(01-15-2024, 09:32 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(01-14-2024, 11:58 PM)Caldrac Wrote: https://twitter.com/marhsim/status/17467...iPn7w&s=19

Doesn't matter to me with Baalke in the building. The draft is used to build your team and raise it's floor level closer to it's ceiling of potential.

We don't have a team builder in Jacksonville. We have a bargain bin shopper that overspends on the wrong items.

Buys the meat. Forgets the charcoal.

Buys the utensils. Forgets the plates.

Buys the pasta. Forgets he had three boxes of pasta in the pantry already.

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Not for nothing, goff is five years more senior than trev.  The lions defensive backfield is abysmal.   Every team has holes.   Our eraser is still learning, theirs has been to a superb bowl.

Every team has a weakness. That's nothing new under the sun. It's the team with the least amount of weaknesses or a very, very strong group though that enables them to thrive and keep their heads above the water. 

Our problem is that, we have no strengths on this football team at the moment. After a ton of investments were made in free agency and in these draft's. The biggest, common them though has been:

1. Competent to dominate offensive line play.
2. Competent to dominate defensive line play.
3. The threat of a running game offensively. 

We have none of the above last season. Just like we had none of the above in 2022.

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