(10-09-2023, 06:10 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(10-09-2023, 06:06 PM)carp8dm Wrote: Bad takes??  I have none of those.

I get it, it would have been nice to pick up a legit Lineman at 25.  But there wasn't one.  We got the best line man available with Little, and we also got ETN.  

Did Baalke gamble?  Maybe.  But you gotta give him credit that he made the right call.  We got a really great RB and we still got a Guard/Tackle that can be here for years.  Now, if we want to discuss the 2022's draft or 2023's draft, I think I won't defend Baalke.  

The whole 2023 draft is a mystery to me at this point.  We drafted 1 OLineman, and then went heavy on D-Line/ Interior LB even though it's been our strength, all while wasting a pick on a TE in the 2nd round?!!?  Were they thinking that Strange could become a Guard or Tackle or something?!?!  You just paid Engram as the Premier TE.  Why are we wasting a 2nd round pick on a mediocre TE?  Just such a waste.  

If we want to argue about draft picks, let's talk about that!!!  ETN was actually a smart pick based on how it all turned out, in my opinion.

I have no problem taking a TE there but to take Strange is the problem.  If say LaPorta fell to us and we had taken him it would of been a great pick.  Hes one of the best TEs in the leage right now.

Maybe, your right.  But that's not what happened.  La Porta was taken at 32 and Strange was taken at like 60...  It was a stretch.  Though, I don't know who would have been the better pick.  But clearly at this point, at least a developmental Guard/Center would have been helpful at this point.  And that's what's kinda upsetting.  We didn't really need at 60.  We could have gone with another area of need that had a player with higher upside.  Strange was a bad pick.  A strange pick, even.

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