(01-03-2022, 09:13 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: I'm aware that this is extremely unrealistic. This is just what I would do with the available players if we could get whomever we wanted. My question is if this was our offense next year, how would you feel?
QB. Trevor Lawrence
RB. ETN - Robinson - Leonard Fournette (I know, probably wont happen but i'd rather bring him back than the older options or wasting draft capital. And with JR and ETN being question marks we may need somebody)
WR1. Davante Adams
WR2. DJ Chark
WR3. MJJ
WR4. Chris Godwin (Again, I'm aware of his injury but he's only 25 years old and the injury may allow us to steal him for a low price)
WR5. Draft Pick
TE1. Dan Arnold
TE2. Dalton Shultz
LT. Walker Little
LG. Norwell / Draft pick
C. Linder / Draft pick
RG. Brandon Scherf
RT. Terron Armstead / Draft pick.
The reason I didn't do a full lineup including defense is because in this assumption, most of our cap space would be depleted soley on offense.. which would leave the majority of defensive issues up to the draft and I don't like making mocks/predicting picks on players I know nothing about. So all I could tell you at this point is replacing Chaisson with Thib.
The RB room is two guys uncertain to return to form from injury and another guy we ran out of town. The WR room includes a franchised (likely to be) player and two other guys coming off injury that are still going to command a high dollar with question marks as to their return. You say that the defensive roster will be determined by darft picks, but list 4 picks on the offensive side. I can't rely on Linder to anchor the line. I really think we are going to need to readdress the Center position.
I can't see how we can gauge feelings about a roster that, as you put, is unrealistic.
I'm fine with us throwing money out there to try to fix the offense. We might land one or two of the FA you have listed, we saw last year that just because you have cap room, players may still opt to sign elsewhere if the prospect of winning or team environment is more attractive. So maybe we look at your list, and say which move or two is the one that we have to nail to have optimism next year?
I'd vote on finding an RT, especially if Little is allocated to the LT position. RG is ok with Bartch and/or Taylor filling in, with my preference to Bartch. I'd like to see us find a WR that is going to grow with TLaw, and become his go-to option, whether that is Godwin, Gallup, or some guy in the darft. We've seen how valuable Chase is to Burrow, Adams to Rodgers, Hill to Mahomes, and I want that as our long-term prognosis. Doesn't have to be a Calvin Johnson clone, but that mentality of "we need 7 yards, I'll get you 10, I don't care who's covering" has been lacking for way too long.
On the D side, we desperately need ILB help. Either FA or darft has to target some help there.
