(12-30-2019, 03:44 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(12-30-2019, 02:07 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I still agree with that ideology 100%, but with the win on Sunday, I have both Thomas and Wirfs gone by the time we pick (to the Giants and the Cardinals.) That's the only two LT's I have first round grades on. You can't very well draft a LT in round 1, if the grade isn't there. My next two highest rated LT's are Josh Jones and Trey Adams. They are projected to go in round 2 and that's where I have us taking an OT. I'm certainly not gonna reach for one of those guys and pass up the best interior O-Lineman in the draft (Biadasz.) We have needs at LT and OG and I'm filling them with the best available players IMO. Since there was no good LT's available in round 1, I have no choice.

So your ideology is that OT's must be taken in round 1, and spending a 2nd round pick on them is tantamount to ignoring the position, except you throw all that out if OT isn't BAP at your round 1 pick and then it's cool to grab one in the 2nd round if that's where the next highest one is projected. 

That's a very handy ideology.

What I've been saying is that you never turn down a chance to get a franchise LT in round 1, if you don't have one. If there's not one there when you're up to pick though, you don't reach for one. If there is a franchise LT on the board in round one and you pass on them to draft another position, because there should be other decent LT's left on the board in round 2 (i.e. Cam Robinson), that is the wrong approach. That is what we have been doing. Had we been picking #5 or #6 in this coming draft, maybe we'd have a shot at a franchise LT, but as it stands now, I see no way that Thomas or Wirfs falls to us. It's a different situation altogether. You have to see how the board falls and make adjustments.

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