(03-28-2024, 02:27 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(03-28-2024, 01:50 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Yeah. A little too soon I think with giving up on a 61st overall pick just barely under a year ago. We'll see if they start doing different things philosophically with the running game. It just doesn't work at all here consistently enough and you can't keep banking on one player at Center being the primary, root cause of failing there.

I mean, I hope it's true, but, they should still be beefing up the depth chart next month. All of those cute little shirts they wore the past few years with being poorly ranked as a unit should now have a new mantra of being healthy and holding up better physically. 

Our so called "best five" didn't start last year as a whole unit until the season finale with everything riding on the line and they folded like napkins in crunch time.

You undervalue a healthy Ezra Cleveland. I expect he'll end the revolving door at LG this season and he's a much better than average player. The right guard and center should both be addressed in the draft due to age, but I doubt we'll see that happen. Tackle is a mystery to me, both the left side guys are free agents after next season and I'd expect a replacement to be drafted, but Baalke doesn't act like normal people, so who knows? If it were me I'd leave the draft with JPJ and at least one of the mid-round guards like Haynes, Mahogany, Beebe, or Zinter along with a developmental tackle like Goncalves or Rosengarten. Get new guys in here because we'll need them in another year.

Everybody keeps saying JPJ is not worth the 17th overall selection, because of the position, however, when I look around at most mock sites? I have seen him go to Miami just inside the early 20's. Recently now he's getting traction with Dallas at 24.

JPJ's selection wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. You could play him at guard as a rookie to challenge Scherff for a year or just plan on developing him at Center and figuring something out with Morse and Fortner. 

Tackle is concerning. On two fronts. The starting LT and the back-up swing tackle. If they don't land a quality lineman on the opening night of the draft I would think you have to start eyeing those pair of 4th RD picks just outside the top 100 in a potential effort to move up. 

It sucks right now. We go 17 to 48 and then we have to wait another 48 selections to get our next pick at 96. That's a long, long wait and a big, big game of chance there. I would be tempted to creep back up into the later half of RD2 or earlier stages of RD3 with somebody looking to move back.

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