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(02-22-2021, 01:48 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Since when do we need a WR #1??

This team has two high caliber starting WR's and that is the issue with the team??!?


At this point, I just see no point in discussing this anymore. You are in the boat with people who are like Al Davis. Get weapons, and more weapons and ooooohhh.. he runs a 4.2 draft him (Al Davis would have lost it over John Ross). Meanwhile, I've seen really good QBs win playoff games with excellent offensive lines, stout defenses and 1 real threat at WR. (Ravens have 1 legit WR. Browns did better without OBJ, and only one big time WR in Landry, Buffalo has Diggs and .... yeah... how many years was Brady throwing to guys that were cast offs, Green Bay has Adams and then... yup no one.)

So, I hope you get the toy at 5, and then when we pick top 5 in 2022, maybe we'll start re-thinking what is important since drafting another WR early when you already have 2 good ones has worked well for Atlanta, and the Lions and etc, etc.

We've needed a WR1 ever since AJ hit the wall.  Where have you been?  Notice how the offense nose dived after he went down in '18 and never recovered?

Boys and Higgins are good players, but neither is a WR1.  When we're talking about Burrow forcing throws to well covered targets, Boyd was tied for 94th in generating separation last year and Higgins didn't sniff the top 100.  Not to mention the fact that Boyd completely disappeared late in the year when Tee went down with only 1 catch for 3 yards in the final 2 games of the year.  High caliber, indeed.

Oh yeah, totally.  Anybody that ever considered taking a skill player in the 1st is Al Davis.  It's not like I wasn't prepared to take Cody Ford at 11 if Jonah didn't fall to us in '18.  It's not like I didn't defend the team for double dipping at T in the Og-Fisher draft.  

Was Ross a bust?  Sure.  Is Price a bust?  Yup.  Was Og a bust?  Certainly.  You can't just write position groups off your draft board because you took a swing and missed.

First off, we don't have a really good defense.  We are years away from having a really good defense.  Trying to build an offense that's success is predicated on having a good defense is an exercise in futility.  Secondly, those teams have elite RB's and/or a great 1-2 punch at RB, which we don't have.  They also have great TE's, which we don't have.  Their WR1's are also deep threats that back the S's out of the box for the run game and the TE and can beat them over the top when they sneak up, which we don't have.  And Tom Brady?  Seriously?  That's like saying you should be able to hit that golf shot because Tiger Woods could do it.  You want to steal our opponents defensive signals like the Pats did, too?  And didn't Brady get his knee shredded the same way Burrow did behind those great OL's?  Not to mention he's thrown to 5 different All Pro WR's and an All Pro TE in his career.  Tonyun led all TE's in receiving TD's with 11 last year and Aaron Jones is a beast, but yeah, GB has nothing except for Adams.

Man, the amount of high school level passive aggressiveness is palpable in this last paragraph.  Wasn't Atlanta in the SB a few years ago?  Top 5 picks don't come around very often.  When they do, you need to hit a home run.  That means sticking to your board and not reaching based on some "build through the trenches" draft philosophy.  There are 3 guys I would be ecstatic with getting at 5, Sewell, Chase, and Pitts.  Reaching for a 13-16 prospect like Slater or Darisaw at 5 isn't helping this team   If you're doing that, then it means you didn't do enough to address the  OL in FA.