(01-30-2024, 02:50 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-30-2024, 01:16 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Not only that, but, how often has this franchise landed a cornerstone player in the first round and extended them to a second contract? It's extremely rare. 

This is an opportunity to not only do the right thing, but, also shake some of our past ghosts off that we've been getting chased by for quite a bit of time. 

I think since post 2000. We've resigned, what? Maybe three to four players we drafted in RD1. Maybe Marcedes Lewis and who else? I can't think of anybody else really. Eugene Monroe? Marcus Stroud? John Henderson?

It's a been awhile. It's pretty bad when you have to go back that far as well.

Blake Bortles and Tyson Alualu are the two you forgot.  Monroe did not get a second contract because he was traded.

Yeah. Not really cornerstone caliber players though. Alualu was just a guy. Bortles was a nice guy but a one year hit wonder. Lewis was at least a stout blocker and had some decent catching qualities. Stroud and Henderson back then were exactly what this team would die for now to fix this defense. 

I vaguely remember Monroe. I don't think he was great but I also don't think he was bad by any means during his career. His career was short. I just remember him and Eben Briton getting into the cannabis business or conversation post NFL.

---