(10-30-2023, 03:13 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(10-30-2023, 03:03 PM)Caldrac Wrote: I still doubt that. Atlanta is a run heavy, run first team that covets powerful and dynamic runners. They only way they do a redo is if they can trade up for CJ Stroud. As that's the only other value pick they would need as a team to help them out based on Ridder's overall play this year.

Lions are winning football games. I don't think they do anything different. Even in a redo. They took two, safe, well rounded players in Gibbs and that LB out of Iowa. They also landed Branch who had a 1st RD grade on him.

Do you know who was 3rd in the NFL in rushing last year and averaged 4.9 yards a carry? The Falcons.

Do you know who currently is tied for 31st in the league for sacks? The Falcons.

And? They're still 4 - 4. In a bad NFC South division. Carter's situation also scared a lot of teams off. Robinson was and still is arguably the safest pick of that draft. When you're a team that's been struggling for years to get it right? It's better safe than sorry in those situations. 

You know what's setting the Falcons back more than anything? Poor QB play. That's really a bad comparison. Outside of Josh Allen here on our defense? Who else is really getting sacks on the stat sheet? We're in the 20's if I am not mistaken.

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(10-30-2023, 03:12 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-30-2023, 03:06 PM)Caldrac Wrote: I would get it if it made sense. It's not like Etienne is not panning out and that we missed out on some awesome LT/RT or WR at the bottom of that draft on the opening night. 

Only other offensive player worth a lick that I can recall of off the top of my head is Detroit's St. Brown and he went into the 4th RD if I am not mistaken. 

Taking a RB that gets plenty of touches and is scoring TD's is not something to gripe over nor revisit.

FWIW 
I'm debating draft strategy, the position value, and the radical change in the position's value. 
Not the actual player.

I love that we got that pick right despite me hating it philosophically. 
I would have gotten us a solid lineman when we could have had a special back. I know that and freely admit it.

The only lineman I thought we could have grabbed that night and I wanted (was dead wrong about it as well, I can also freely admit it) was Tevin Jenkins. Who ended up with the Bears and has done nothing due to injuries. He fell into the 2nd RD. We ultimately landed a lineman in Walker Little that year anyway the very next night.

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