Quote:Well, I think Ivory is a better RB than Fowler is a DE or Cyprien is an SS, so I think where we are as a team is that DE and SS are bigger needs, more important positions, harder to find in FA/later in draft, have longer careers with llonger peaks, and are injured less often.

 

If we were making a pro/con list of RB (Fournette/Cook) vs DE (Allen/Thomas) or S (Adams/Hooker) every single pro is on the DE/S side to me. The only one toward RB is trying to salvage the QB you already missed on at 3, which is convoluted logic to me to begin with as I've explained before. Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

Most pass rushers take time to develop so who says we draft Thomas or Allen and they aren't duds all year? If not longer to develop? I mean you just spent a top 3 pick on Fowler and you've got Ngakoue who went balls to the wall last season and you don't even know what you've got there, really. You are statistically in the top 10 with your defense and at the very least it's a serviceable defense. I'd take the Atlanta route that they did and sign a vet like Freeney (JPP?) and use that as insurance for your young guys.

 

But you flip the stats over on offense and it's just awful. The rushing, the interceptions, the lack of establishing anything. You can't win games like that. It's not even serviceable in college. A guy like Fournette or Cook gives you momentum and establishes tempo.

 

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that there is a lot of elite potential at the top of this draft and no matter who it is they are most likely going to be a game changer. 

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