(04-13-2020, 10:35 AM)Upper Wrote:

(04-13-2020, 06:55 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: What was our biggest need going into the offseason?  What was our biggest weakness last season?   Stopping the run.   Want to improve the offense?  Get the ball back from the other team.  We cannot get the ball back from the other team if we cannot stop the run.  Why did we lose 5 games in a row in the middle of the season?  We couldn't stop the run.  Have we made enough moves so far this offseason to stop the run?  I don't think so.  That's why I think after all the mock drafts, and all the to and fro about who we will draft at 9, when it's time for our pick, we will find out everyone's original thought was correct.   Our first pick will be either Brown or Kinlaw.

Al Woods is a very good run defender. You can draft very good run defenders in the middle rounds, in fact that's where the evidence says they should be taken. If you're taking a defensive lineman top 10 he better rush the passer exceptionally well. Brown does not do that and Kinlaw sometimes does, and has the physical ability to do so frequently, but also has long stretches of doing nothing.

If we trade back to 14-15, then Kinlaw makes a ton of sense. If we stay at 9, you take the best player, and the consensus seems to be that Brown is just a better player than Kinlaw, even if he won't regularly be in the QB's face. There's a lot riding here on what the coaching staff thinks of Taven Bryan's development and where they think he plays. If he stays inside, maybe DT isn't as big a priority. If he's destined to move outside to replace Calais with Allen on the other side replacing Yan, then you definitely need to add a tackle early. However it happens, the team's going to have to address the DL early after shedding Campbell, Dareus and (presumably) Ngakoue. Gunter's more or less and unknown and Woods is just a guy who happens to be turning 33 in a month.

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