(04-28-2024, 03:59 PM)AnOldBrownie Wrote:

(04-26-2024, 09:14 PM)enigma Wrote: Head-scratching selection for me with the value at the pick. Not a fan of the selection especially with other higher rated players available at OL, CB, and even DT.

Hope he proves me wrong though. He's going to have EVERY opportunity to be the impactful player that Baalke must have seen in him with Josh Allen, Travon Walker and Arik Armstead flanking him.

This is on Nielson, their new DC, if this pick is a bust.   Nielson's specialty is Dline.    

The Jags D-line for 2 seasons has under performed.

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(04-26-2024, 10:50 PM)Eric1 Wrote: Terrible take because Big Roy is a good player lol.

Wait.  What metric are you using to say Big Roy is a "good", not AVERAGE player?

(04-29-2024, 02:14 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I hear lots of folks putting this pick on Matt House.

I think it's deeper than that.

Ed Ogeron recruited Maason Smith. Ryan Nielsen is a protege of Ed Ogeron.
I think our DC may have been pounding the table for this pick with or without House being in the building.

But this strikes me as odd. If a coaches “speciality” is maximizing a specific position group, then wouldn’t that mean you should not have to invest high level resources (signings/picks) at that position group to get similar results to the rest of the league?

And now if the team is investing high level resources at that position group, then above average production is not good enough. The expectation would be elite production. Enough so that it can cover up weaknesses in other areas of the defense.

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