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[OSUfan]

(04-28-2019, 02:43 PM)yang Wrote: Dude, I have been a port of enough message boards to vouch for my loyalty I used to hold weekly tailgate parties for everyone to come hang out.   You are just trying to use a moral identity attack on me as if if it makes your position or the picks better.   If you want to like every bucket of shit thrown your way because of some authoritarian follower loyalty have at it.

The truth is every single all pro offensive tackle has at minimum an above average athletic grade.  No all pro offensive tackles get there without it.  It’s just reality.   For Williams to get there he would have to literally break the mold.   And this does not mean he doesn’t have the ability to be a decent average tackle with a long career.  And it could mean that he won’t be able to handle it and move to guard where he could do well.

But there is a reason Williams fell to #11.  If he had better size and athletic grades he would have.

And I say Sample is going to be a backup because HE IS A BACKUP!!  This isn’t even a question. He is behind Eifert and Uzomah.   How many 2 tight end sets do you think we will run?    How many of those will include him?   Like any other TE he has to learn his craft for a few years just like Kroft and Uzomah did.  He will be really lucky to be on the field 10% of the time.  Any more will be because of injury.  Most of the time pro players are what they were in college.  He will likely be an average TE in the league.  He has no special skills to set him apart.   As his coach said when they announced him, his receiving skills are “adequate”.

As for DE and WR, at 2 we could have have gotten a starter at either position. Lots of available talent there.   The Rams had 3 WR’s with almost 1000 yards (injury prevented it) so you need lots of WR’s that can bring YAC.  We also don’t know if Ross is going to make it and both our starters are signed for one year.  It’s practically irresponsible not to draft a WR.

And we really need a 3 down DE, especially with Johnson gone.   Who is filling that role?  Lawson is a 3rd down rush specialist.

Not sure if you do not watch the Bengals or follow them or what but we do have that 3 down DE as a matter of fact we drafted him last season and he showed out extremely well for being a rookie. If you do not know who that is then there is no point even carrying on a conversation with you. I would also be curious who this sure fire guaranteed starter at DE is that you are talking about us drafting in the spot of Sample.

You keep talking about drafting a WR and complaining about Sample being a backup. Hate to break this to you but I do not see too many WRs in this draft walking in on day 1 and starting over AJ Green and Tyler Boyd.

Actually what appears to be is that positions that you think they should have drafted would be instant starters but if it is not that position then it is not an instant starter. It also appears that you call a #3 WR a starter but not a #2 TE.