(03-23-2024, 02:38 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(03-23-2024, 11:55 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Yeah. I just don't like the pick man. Doesn't do it for me. I would take Dallas Turner if he fell though. I like him as an EDGE prospect. With Arnold? I just can't see it. Just reading some of the strengths about him concern me. The Marshon Lattimore comparison is being a little too generous in my opinion. 

I don't feel like waiting two years on a 17th overall selection to become a "good" starter the way he's been profiled on NFL.com. That speed bothers me a lot, especially for a guy of his size, and, the biggest thing is his inexperience and the fact that his overview says "Arnold will make mistakes with positioning and lose focus at times, but he has quality upside to be a CB1 within a couple of years". 

Pass. If it's not Quinyon Mitchell, I am not interested at Arnold there nor Wiggins with the 17th overall pick. I am honestly going to flat out say it, getting big C.J Henderson vibes from both of those guys. The value just isn't there for me to justify it. Not on a team that needs to get better and better fast in 2024 to avoid a potential reset or changing of the guard in 2025. 

At that point? If they had to go secondary? I would hope Cooper DeJean is still on the board. I still like T.J Tampa, Mike Sainristil, Max Melton, Khyree Jackson & Renardo Green as Day 2/Day 3 options. Go get the best CB or CB/S/Gunner/Returner with the 17th overall pick or just stick to the IDL or IOL there and get the upgrades that we know will help the overall scheme of things on either side of the football because it all starts up front anyway.

Gotcha, just saying Mitchell didnt really do [BLEEP] on him.  Hard pass on Wiggins for me.  He is too light and can't tackle.  Not to mention he doesn't seem very bright and it was very odd that he didn't even know anything about 2 Clemson legends because he wasnt there at the time.  Mia also said when he interviewed with the team it didnt go well thanfully.  Corner has to be able to tackle in this defense.  

  Mitchell and DeJean are the 2 corners I would be very happy with at 17, the rest not so much.  I'm hoping Jarian Jones will be there in the 3rd, i think he could be starter at nickle day 1 and eventually be our starting outside corner.  I really like Sainristil as well, him and Jones are the 2 best nickle corners in the draft with Jones being better in man coverage, I hope 1 falls to the 3rd but I wouldn't hate it if we took either in the 2nd depending on who is available

Your not the only ones liking them.  Why do you think KC floated that leak of us being interested in swapping #17 for Sneed.   A really good CB will be available there. Now they will have to try to get one with the 3rd they got from the Titans. Still not bad as he was a 4th round pick in 2020. KC needs low cost young guys just like everyone else in the league. Sneed signed a 4 year 76 mill (55 guaranteed) contract with the titans. We will see him 2x a year now.

True, the draftnicks keep putting us going corner. If you look at our 2 deep and what we did in free agency, corner is most likely the only starting spot of need. That corner would need to start. We need a back up tackle to Harrison, a backup guard for Ezra, a big physical defensive lineman to spell Armstead and possibly a back up corner IF we don't keep 5 safeties. It would be nice for these backups to be able to mature fast, say by midseason?  Just a 50,000 foot observation. How much confidence we have in other players is debatable.

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