03-20-2022, 11:34 PM
(03-20-2022, 08:27 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Now that we’ve greatly improved our o line, what should people not freak out over if it happens? I’ll start.
1) Don’t freak out if we don’t bring in another o line. I’d still like to bring Spain back to compete with Carman. If we don’t, we’ll be just fine. Worst case scenario we have one weak link on the line. Burrow can anticipate that, the coaches can game plan for that. They couldn’t last year with 60% of the line being incompetent. Best case scenario our talented 2nd year player is up for the challenge and we have no weak links on the line.
2) Don’t freak out if we draft a receiver early. Even the first round. I know some will probably blow a gasket but with the FA they just put up we don’t have any urgent needs. CB would be nice (still think we sign one more), DT depth, TE to develop, etc are all positions we will look for, but we’ll be fine without them if we go BPA.
We should probably get used to early WR draft picks in basically every single draft. Pay Burrow, pay Chase, the rest are probably going to have to go. Maybe even be traded before their last year to get picks in return. With as much 5 wide as we run, we should really have 4 reliable WR’s especially when you consider an injury to one (or two) of the top 3. Look at the rams last year. They got lucky OBJ was cut. With the contracts WR’s have signed we will struggle to fill any injury openings we have and can’t count on an all star to get cut right when we have an injury.
Also most rookies aren’t studs year one like the last two we got so time to develop will be nice. Based on the talent in this draft I’d target round 3 for the best WR value but if the right guy is there round 1-2 don’t freak out.
After this Free Agency where we got Cappa, Karras and La'el frickin' Collins there will be no need to freak out.
I like your thoughts as usual but I must add I would like to see a DT early and a Corner to boot in the Draft.
Lots of great ones to be had to keep our D tops and as far as I am concerned, besides our Kicker were the main reason we got to
the Superbowl. Keep this Defense tough and our Offense won't have to score as much. Still think we are going to be a top Offense
next year if not the best in the game the way they upgraded the OL. We will see but I love what we have done coming off a great
run for the entire thing where we only lost by 3 points in the big game.
Injuries always come into the picture though, we will see if we can stay as healthy this next season. We were a little blessed in this
aspect. But we still lost our starting RT and had numerous other injuries and still got to the big game. This says a lot about coaching.
