(02-25-2021, 04:22 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 03:04 PM)Bullseye Wrote: The reason you would tag Cam is because there is no guarantee you can pull off a deal to get another LT that is an upgrade over Cam.

If you go after Trent and he declines, and the Chargers outbid us for Brown...what's left?

Okung & Villanueva?  Both are likely finished.

It's a rare circumstance that a team will trade away a viable LT.

I disagree. Our current OT's set the bar so low, we'd have to really whiff, in order not to find a better one. Their PFF scores are among the bottom in the NFL. 

That's why you offer a massive, front loaded contract for like 3 years that is easy to get out of on the 3rd year. There is no reason to believe he would decline that much in 3 years and we have the cap room to make him the highest paid OT in the league on such a deal. I don't care if we have to overpay, as long as it's a short term deal. That buys us time to find a young LT in the next 2 seasons. 

Okung and Villanueva shouldn't even be on our radar.

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I agree we should make a serious push for Williams.  I wasn't talking a token effort here.  Your middle paragraph sums up my view completely.

But by the same token, even our best effort may not be enough to get Williams.  For whatever reason, Williams may not want to come here.

I hope it isn't true.  Hopefully Trent Williams will gladly and eagerly sign here.  But if he doesn't, we need to have some protection.  It IS possible to get worse at the position.

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