(04-19-2024, 09:16 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-19-2024, 08:32 AM)Mikey Wrote: PREACH

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....see this note is specifically why I'm not as worried about day one starter with our first round pick. If we can move back, grab someone like JPJ, and have Morse in place while he gets that ankle fully healed, all the better. If it lands us a potential top5 at their position for the next 5 years or longer, that's a significant win.

Gotta do the homework on those medicals, though.

I've been high on JPP for a while now but if they really wanted JPP they wouldn't of signed Morse and we would have just taken JPP at 17. JPP could be a day 1 starter imo.

Signing Morse gives you insurance. Aren't you the BAP guy? You move back in the darft, and if he's the top guy you take him regardless of who you signed in the offseason.

Not like we set the market with Morse's deal. It's two years, minimal (relatively) cap impact. If it affords you the opportunity to take the best guy WITHOUT desperately swinging for that guy at 17 (JPJ is not value at that spot). Having a guy like Morse ensures we aren't throwing a rook to the wolves, but also making sure that the interim isn't a disaster like things were with Fortner in the middle.

I'm not saying he's their guy. Even if he was, it would have been foolhardy to go into April with nothing more at C than Fortner, camp bodies, and the hope that JPJ is on the board at 17.

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(04-19-2024, 01:16 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-19-2024, 12:33 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: I don't think Morse's contract prohibits taking a Center in this draft.  You fill holes in free agency.  You don't go into the draft with an obvious hole on your roster or that should be a general goal at least.  Sometimes it's unavoidable I guess, like if you're picking high and you have a hole at QB like most teams picking high do.  But going in with holes at other positions is just telegraphing your needs and intentions to other teams who may try to trade up in front of you to snipe you.

I don't think his contract does either.  My point is they wouldn't have even signed Morse if their plan was to draft JPP.  I think we draft a center I'm just talking about JPP in the first.  I think we draft  Bortolini

We wouldn't have a shot at Powers-Pohnson if we didn't sign Morse in the offseason. That's Jrescisely the joint Paguarmeister was making.

If the only move we make this offseason is re-upping Shatley everyone and their brother is gonna know that OC is a priority for us, especially with Doug's and Trevor's input regarding the status quo.

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