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(04-27-2021, 09:48 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I never said we shouldn’t surround Burrow with great weapons though. Why some of you are so resistant to trying to recreate the 2019 LSU offense I have no idea. Going into last year I had no idea AJ’s play would be as bad as it was. Had he been anything close to his former self we would have won a lot of those close games. But way too often we were able to march the ball right down the field only to not do shit in the red zone. And that was largely because Burrow threw a grand total of 3 TD’s to anyone other than Tee or Boyd.

You literally said drafting Burrow would make the line better and the WRs better. He won 2 games and the line was a wreck. Boyd was just as good with Dalton as he was with Burrow. Higgins broke out, but who elevated who in this situation?

You went on that he was going to be the next Andrew Luck (which he might but only in terms of his career being cut short due to injury) and that no other QB in the class was close to him... Herbert is absolutely on his level, might even be better, time will tell but we certainly could have traded back and gotten the extra pick last year and the extra pick this year to let the Dolphins move up and would have been just fine.

Recreating the LSU offense? This isn't fantasy land, this is the NFL. Not going to get Joe Brady or Justin Jefferson or Clyde Edwards-Helaire all of which were just as big a part of that offense as anyone, and honestly I think Joe Brady was the biggest part of it. 

If the issue is red zone offense, then you want someone other then a 6 foot WR... get a TE like Pitts, or even the Penn State kid in round two. 

The argument for Chase was he was going to take the top off the defense, but you literally just said the real issue was the not scoring in the red zone. So again... which is it?

What is really sounds like to me is all the pro Chase crowd think that he comes in and we have Moss and on boy, here we go LSU all over... and that isn't real life. A suspect line in college no problem (as you have said over and over the LSU line wasn't very good) but a suspect line in the NFL? That is a huge problem. 

Chase will be a good WR, but he isn't the correct pick for this team. I said this last year, you argued, and my argument ended being 100% correct. I'm not looking at 2021, I'm looking at the long term. Sewell and Chase will both be good pros and I think both will be in the upper tier of their position group. However, I look at two other factors. First, I actually believe Tee Higgins can be the real #1 WR on this team and that we need a Chris Henry type, a guy who can go deep, doesn't need to be the #1 just needs to get the defense to respect him deep and that is a 3rd or 4th round guy easy. Secondly, if Sewell and Chase both hit their ceiling, Chase will give you 6 or 7 great years, while Sewell can give you 10 plus. Not an opinion just a fact based on life of WRs at an elite level. Chad gave us 7 great years, Green 6.5, Carl Pickens four, WRs historically don't stay great for long. There is exceptions, but I'm talking the norm. Meanwhile, look at the top shelf OL guys, you get 10 years or in Whit's case 14 years. 

So why do you want to take 6 or 7 great years in one and pass on 10 plus great years? Why are we selling Higgins short when he showed more as a rookie then Chad Johnson's rookie year (not saying he will be Chad, but he shows so much promise and we are ready to replace him)? And before you say Higgins won't be replaced by Chase.. Chase will help... there is only so many targets in a game. CJ is going to be back, Boyd, and Higgins, the coaches are committed to Sample, we need a 3rd option for WR, not a 1st option. You don't draft your 3rd target in round one.