04-30-2021, 03:51 AM
We need to stop treating these guys like apples. This is not a fruit market lol. For someone like myself who's been following them all year, they are not interchangeable, identical, mass-produced goods that have the same specs. There are a lot of names on the board, yes. But that would've been true regardless. You don't want them all unless you've never seen them all.
I'm no Lombardi, but of the guys available I'm personally limited to Jenkins, Humphrey, Davis and... maybe I could be persuaded on Dickerson. We're in no position to take gambles on the others. Little's been off the grid for three years, Trey has his own medical story, Meinerz may just be a Senior Bowl warrior for all we know, while Radunz may just be a workout warrior for all we know. That doesn't even take into account what you think of their play. Meanwhile, Cosmi is woefully inconsistent and plays small; Eichenberg thrives neither in pass protection nor run blocking lol; Carman is a project who's never played guard and whose frame is certainly not fit for tackle; and Green carries a 3rd round grade. What options are we really looking at?!
Thankfully, there will be others later. I like Braden Christensen BYU, Spencer Brown Northern Iowa, David Moore Grambling, D'Ante Smith East Carolina, Sadarius Hutcherson South Carolina and Robert Jones Middle Tennessee. But these guys have a long way to go themselves, and only Christensen can be seen as a plug and play imo.
Regardless, instead of shoving each other's noses in it, I'd rather discuss how our D-line remains a mess, while 4 of the last 5 picks tonight were edge rushers and 9 in total were Front 7s. As such, I'd be inclined to look very seriously at Ronnie Perkins and Carlos Basham Jr if they're still on the board at 38, instead of forcing one of the remaining square pegs into a round (two) hole just to yell "We got one!" like Janine from Ghostbusters. It also goes without saying that if a Swiss Army knife-playmaker like Wu is there at 38, we should explode toward him the way he explodes toward ball-carriers, and worry about the rest later. The point is, we're not winning here. We're still playing from behind. We have countless holes and virtually no depth. Now is not the time for gloating.
(I'll feel better on Saturday night lol.)
I'm no Lombardi, but of the guys available I'm personally limited to Jenkins, Humphrey, Davis and... maybe I could be persuaded on Dickerson. We're in no position to take gambles on the others. Little's been off the grid for three years, Trey has his own medical story, Meinerz may just be a Senior Bowl warrior for all we know, while Radunz may just be a workout warrior for all we know. That doesn't even take into account what you think of their play. Meanwhile, Cosmi is woefully inconsistent and plays small; Eichenberg thrives neither in pass protection nor run blocking lol; Carman is a project who's never played guard and whose frame is certainly not fit for tackle; and Green carries a 3rd round grade. What options are we really looking at?!
Thankfully, there will be others later. I like Braden Christensen BYU, Spencer Brown Northern Iowa, David Moore Grambling, D'Ante Smith East Carolina, Sadarius Hutcherson South Carolina and Robert Jones Middle Tennessee. But these guys have a long way to go themselves, and only Christensen can be seen as a plug and play imo.
Regardless, instead of shoving each other's noses in it, I'd rather discuss how our D-line remains a mess, while 4 of the last 5 picks tonight were edge rushers and 9 in total were Front 7s. As such, I'd be inclined to look very seriously at Ronnie Perkins and Carlos Basham Jr if they're still on the board at 38, instead of forcing one of the remaining square pegs into a round (two) hole just to yell "We got one!" like Janine from Ghostbusters. It also goes without saying that if a Swiss Army knife-playmaker like Wu is there at 38, we should explode toward him the way he explodes toward ball-carriers, and worry about the rest later. The point is, we're not winning here. We're still playing from behind. We have countless holes and virtually no depth. Now is not the time for gloating.
(I'll feel better on Saturday night lol.)
