2021 O-Line Targets

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(10-10-2020, 10:35 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: Key word was “going”. He’s not going to do it as a rookie because he’s still has his own game to improve. I still have hope Green is going to work into at least passable shape at some point this year, but shouldn’t be brought back for next year. Don’t get me started on Ross.

I’ve argued in other threads that we have a #1 and it’s Boyd. Back to back 1,000yd seasons and already leading the league in catches and yards out of the slot this season. And I expect Higgins is going to end up being the #1 by his 3rd year.

There's zero chance Boyd is a #1 WR. Being force fed in garbage time on losing teams doesn't make you a #1. It just makes you the best of a bad bunch.

You know who else had back-to-back 1k seasons? TJ Houshmandzadeh in '06 and '07. Nobody was banging the "TJ is a #1 WR" drum and he had better stats in that period than Boyd.

That's a lot of hope and a lot of time spent waiting. If it doesn't come true, then you've wasted 3 years of Burrow's career without a #1 WR and now you need to pay Burrow an (almost certainly) stupidly large extension and then Boyd and Higgins will have just 1 more year on their deals and you need to let one go because you're paying your QB $30-40m/yr now.

Any plan in the NFL that takes 3 years to hopefully come to fruition is a terrible plan. This league more than any other can only take 1-2 years to both turn a franchise into a SB winner and also turn a SB winner into a trash heap. Play every year like you're trying to win the SB that year. Otherwise you're going to pull a Bengals and squander away a great team core ('11-'15) not adding the pieces you needed to get over the hump because you need to plan for so-and-so's extension 3 years from now.

Nobody has ever been sad that they had 3 good WRs.