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jagforlife85 · 05-05-2014, 09:35 AM

Quote:This from the latest MMQB column...

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.

<span style="font-family:arial;">Bulleye,

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<span style="font-family:arial;">I find these reports funny, simply because there's absolutely no incentive for the Jaguars to leak credible information/draft strategies to any outlet on player or players they're seriously targeting in the draft, especially at the top of the draft where most teams picking the top 5 have similar needs. It simply isn't a competent business model to leak credible information, allowing a competitor or competitors to use that information to their advantage. I've learned to ignore these pre-draft reports, usually the teams do the opposite of what these predraft reports indicate.

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