(11-23-2020, 06:06 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(11-23-2020, 05:19 PM)Kane Wrote: I for one do. You don't take a guy #1 overall and then sit on him.
It's a terrible injury for sure but it's the NFL... injuries happen.

And they can happen behind good O-lines too. Sometimes they happen against air (like Teddy's)

That all being said... sure would be nice to get an elite LT and a really good QB in this draft if possible.

Of course injuries happen, but you dont think the risk was way higher behind a oline like that?  One of the things on Teddy before he was drafted was how skinny his ankles are, it proved the risk to be right what everyone thought.  I like the way KC handled Mahomes, i think they did it perfectly.  Let him sit a year behind a good vet for a year, decent oline , and then he will be ready and let him take over.  Agreed, take Sewell at 2 and get Wilson, Trask, or Jones.  People act like Fields is in a different tier than those guys and its all because of athletic ability.  Some guys were saying 10 or 15 years ago Trask would be the number 1 pick but he isnt athletic enough.  I dont care how athletic my QB is to be honest.  Its why Brady fell to the 6th round

correction, it was skinny knees. I remember this because the evaluation sounded so laughable in the pre-darft hype, and then the day the injury news broke, it was all I could think of.

Had the bungles still had Dalton rostered for another season, this could have been an option, but really they had no other option but to start Joey B. A young HC without a lot of history in that town likely wouldn't be afforded the patience to go through two straight top-5 draft seasons without putting their #1 pick on the field.

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