(04-16-2024, 10:11 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(04-16-2024, 09:05 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/NFL_Podcasts/status/...6238445980

This is a deep enough WR class, to where, it's possible a team or two is finding another Puka Nacua or Amon St. Brown outside of RD1 next weekend. I just cannot get onboard with trading up for one of the top three to four. The odds are in our favor that Brian Thomas Jr. falls to 17, and, he's really not a bad consolation prize in my opinion. 

Everyone on here has been screaming for years that we need a vertical threat on the outside with size, speed, hands and redzone ability. He checks off every single one of those boxes and playing the waiting game seems like the best bet there in my opinion. Should let this year's draft board fall to us, rather than chase after it.

Again, we're not a WR1 away from running the table. Even when you DO land a WR1? How often does it pan out for your play-off hopes and livelihoods? Diggs didn't work out in Buffalo. Hill is not working out so far in Miami. Adams is not working out so far in Las Vegas. Chase is not working out so far in Cincinatti and Jefferson is potentially a trading candidate in Minnesota already if the rumor's are true. 

You do not need a WR1 to win a Superbowl in the NFL. Sure, it helps, however, for every great WR1 on a team that gets wiped out early in the play-off's, there's another team rolling with guys like Wes Welker, Donald Driver & Anquan Boldin as far as where they did or didn't go in their respective draft classes that go onto contribute big time in big time games. 

Have to agree with Jaguarmeister. Build the wall first around Lawrence. Establish the running game. Correct the imbalances and THEN look for his Julio Jones in a year or two in a trade that then makes sense.

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(04-16-2024, 09:45 AM)Mikey Wrote: hoo boy you like wastin them keystrokes, dontcha?

For the wolfman? Absolutely. No such thing as a waste with him.

We are all in agreement that the Jags need to build a wall around Trevor. However, no rookie lineman will start this season. Their starting 5 is set so it's just another rookie drafted that won't see playing time (ala Strange, Bigsby, Ventrell) in year 1. Now we all want depth (that's obvious) but for me, I don't draft depth in round 1. That player needs to make an immediate impact.

A rookie WR however will 100% start over Zay. Odunze, Davis and Kirk perfectly compliment each other.

I'm just going in reverse order of what some want to do with this draft. I'm going up for Odunze (the only player I really want to trade up for). Then I'm taking CB and OL the entire rest of the draft. Then in 2025, I'm hammering OL again. 

My trade up has more to do with Odunze than it does just wanting a WR. If it's not Odunze or MHJ, I'm staying at 17 and probably taking a corner then WR in round 2.

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