(05-01-2023, 08:19 AM)HardcoreMoJagFan Wrote:

(05-01-2023, 03:19 AM)Dimson Wrote: Baalke has a RB fetish. He has drafted one every year he has been a GM.

I did not know this.  I like it, especially if he often has extra picks.  I think you should draft a RB every single year no matter who is on your roster.

I strongly disagree. 

In three years time we've burned a first rounder, a 3rd rounder, a fifth rounder, and two 6th rounders on RBs and we've signed a very good looking FA player this offseason. 

That is a LOT of expense when your defense has a struggling pass rush and no one whatsoever to play the nickel corner position. 

Unwise allotment of offseason expense IMO. 

If you're gonna draft one every year, do it in the fifth or sixth. Not the first and the third. We are a passing team in a passing league and RBs are a dime a dozen in free agency every year compared to other positions. 

I'm not losing my mind over it, and I won't make a Baalke or Shad clown into my avatar, but I think this team would have been better served addressing a position of greater value with that third round pick.

Had they spent or packaged that 3rd rounder to get a pass rusher and then used the remaining 4th round pick or picks on a nickel, I'd feel like they would have ultimately done more for the win/loss column in 2023. A short yardage RB there feels like a luxury we couldn't really afford.

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