Quote:I honestly liked the Jags draft. As deep as they said this draft was, unless you had multiple 1st & 2nds, it didn't really help.


However I think Jacksonville hit on both their first & second picks. Completely lucked out on Jalen Ramsey, but it's not how you did it that counts right?


I think Jack's knee is going to be fine for the first four years at least & he'll make an impact right away. Why? Because that's just the kind of luck the Texans have, that's why.


Beyond that, rounds 3 through 7 it's the same crap shoot it's always been. I like Ngakoue but odds are he'll be a solid role player, or he'll impact the game next year, or the year after, if ever.


I still don't think your defense will be top 3 or anything so there's still some catching up to do. Maybe top 15.


Our draft... Will Fuller will make an impact from day 1. He might not he all Antonio Brown or nothing, bit we're going to be eating up chunks of yards, on th ground after contact, in the short passing game in yac... the fields going to get a lot bigger for us. We'll have room to run with the ball. Even with Hopkins, teams have 10 guys within 7 to 10 yards of the LOS. Watch, next season that number will start at 9, just because Fuller is on our team. Eventually it will be eight.


Nick Martin will be a day 1 starter. How big an impact, hard to say. But it's his job to lose. After that, it's the crap shoot again. I feel as good about Braxton Miller making an impact as I do about Yannick making an impact.


Now QBs... we're all playing with Matt Schaub level QBs except the Colts, they've got a Matt Stafford kinda guy. They're all going to look different doing it, but the end result will be the same. A playoff win here & there, but not much more.


The first team to figure that out will be ahead of the game.

Good takes.

 

While I am excited about the defensive infusion in this draft, I think it reasonable to expect improvement, but not top of the league improvement. 

 

While I am not completely sold on the first year impacts of your receivers, I DO think Martin was a find for you.  In fact, he was a guy I wanted for the Jaguars.

 

The one take here I DO have a problem with was your QB analysis.  I get that all except Luck are considered young QBs and will have their moments of inconsistency.  For that matter, until Schaub's last year in Houston, he was a good QB.  But I think all of these guys have ceilings much higher than Schaub.  For instance, in just his second year, Bortles already eclipsed 4000 yards passing and shattered Schaub's career best TD passes in a year.  I do think all three have stuff to work on.  Bortles needs to work on protecting the ball and himself better.  Mariota needs to work on his accuracy, especially on deep stuff.  Osweiler has to work on accuracy, too.

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