(04-22-2024, 08:27 AM)Mikey Wrote:

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