Don’t freak out if….

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(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.

I was talking out the draft positions with a buddy and I was against going WR in Rd 1 and he said:  "What if Olave is there?".  I responded that you absolutely draft him, unless you get a crazy trade offer.  

I don't like the idea of trading away the first round pick because of the value of a 5 year contract at a relatively low dollar amount.

There is absolutely a scenario where CBs, OTs, QBs, make a huge run and somehow a top 15 rated WR drops to them at 31.

I remember Lapham saying years ago that with a QB like Palmer (puke), you add a couple weapons for him each year in the draft.  Burrow has to be even more needing of those weapons.  Especially now that the line has stabilized.