This from the latest MMQB column...

 

Quote: 

<b>No. 3, Jacksonville.</b> A peer of GM David Caldwell said Sunday he knows a big Jag priority will be to play it safe with this pick. Sammy Watkins or Jake Matthews … quite safe.

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/05/05/nfl-draft-...alil-mack/

 

I think if this is true, as players, I wouldn't have a problem with either pick.  I think both will be good pro players.  On a lot of levels, those two picks make a ton of sense for this team.

 

I'd certainly rather have one of those guys than Manziel.

 

But I'd be kinda disappointed on some level.

 

From a certain perspective, both would represent drafting on a treadmill, so to speak.

 

Both players would be drafted to replace a guy we recently drafted high. Watkins would be the obvious replacement for Blackmon, and you will certainly hear more of the arguments that we should have kept Monroe instead of trading him below value, only to replace him the very next year by Matthews.  For the record, I think a Joeckel-Matthews combo is superior to a Monroe-Joeckel combo.

 

Neither would represent my initial choices of Clowney or Bridgewater.

 

Neither would represent the potential windfall of a trade down.

 

Besides, let's face it, that "playing it safe" talk sounds an awful lot like a "base hit" strategy.

 

I'd get over it quickly and cheer either one wildly if they became Jaguars.

 

Just pre draft anxiety...I guess.

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