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that is a subjective thing. We have all seen guys running open that weren’t targeted.

I get that. I got turned off to him too. I’ll leave it there. But football skills, and he stayed with one team for a long time which says something for him.

How many teams in three years, yet still available? His numbers suck. I am, independently of Horn, calling him the equivalent of a 4AAA baseball prospect. I guess now he is supposed to me my 4AAA prospect. Fine.

It depends on how he is used but Bryce had absolutely shown that he will look for his lil safety blankie. That habit needs to be broken not encouraged. ,

I am not a fan of his, personally. As a ball player, yep I am a fan. I wanted to draft him day three instead of CMC at 6 or 8 or whatever it was. I stick by that too. His value was high relative to his cost.

They are playing with fire sticking to the pre Icky injury strategy. It was a great plan until he went down.

I keep saying Mike Tolbert reincarnated would be the guy I want.

Yeah but if they wait they give up nothing. A little agent team collusion sets that up. This was done too close to the deadline to cut anyway. I am not blaming us, it is set up for that to happen with this calendar the NFL uses. It happens everywhere and we have taken advantage of it too. I guess it all comes out in the wash. Let’s get one of theirs.

They really should do that. We are cap strapped by this but we have to get this situation squared away.

I should have let it pass but I couldn’t resist - I didn’t want him in the first place. I guess as depth he could be okay.

I said nice things about you A’Shawn and only asked that you stay out of the division. Thanks.

I am putting Horn over Metchie, who hasn’t done squat in 3 seasons except bounce around.

I still pull for him to wake up and get with the program. He has made some good catches that get overlooked in all the noise. I don’t know how deep a hole he dug himself with the staff. It may be already decided that he doesn’t fit.

Yeah I expect a drafting or a signing. Personally hoping for a hoss that can reliably get that yard or two when everyone knows he is gonna get the ball. We could have used that for years now.

This is where, if you look, you might find a connection with an OL coach on staff. Someone that had him before and thinks they can get him turned around, fixed, something like that. I’m not looking.

That is technically correct but I can’t help but suspect Baltimore. The timing of it and the Hendrickson thing seems too pat.

Signing as opposed to drafting high, and the profile of shifty quick rather than long, I agree with. But I can’t do anything in the 1st other than tackle unless they address it before the draft.

Agree. I want to draft a quality LB my ideal, which is such a long shot to line up this way, but trade back for the tackle in rd 1 Use the booty from that to move up for LB (Hill is probably my choice) in the 2nd. C in the 3rd or just BPA. S, TE WR DT whatever looks good. And so on.

Looks like he has feet of stone next to these pass rushers.

Over exposure is already an issue. They are going to kill the golden goose with this kind of thinking.

Yeah that is scaring me with Horn. After Luke, I am in terror of that happening again. I guess Jewell is done because of it. Effing LBs…

Deferred payments always call Bobby Bonilla to mind. For the balance of his contract after his release, the Mets did a deferred payment. 1.2 mil per year, 2011-2035. I don’t think they owed him all that much. The kicker is they invested the principle with Bernie Madoff. Of course he stole it all.

Yeah. We just have to see how things develop. I know they have several quality minds working on scenarios and contingencies. For me in this space and in this time, I have things I accept as fact. They may be my opinion but I am operating as though they are facts. As follows. We have a crisis. A fire to put out at left tackle. Ignoring it is not an option. It seems unlikely we are going after the top rated LOT guys in FA at this point. So there is the draft. That’s it. We must explore all options and we must solve it the best we are able to. Even if we have to sacrifice a little. So with the above as my guidelines, I am tossing the luxury of BPA in favor of being practical - in this specific situation. I had no issue with it last year, but we are in a hole right now. I don’t see a choice, we have to address the need.

Ideally trading back to match the value to what is there, is what I have been thinking as I look at the needs and the prospective players we would have a shot at. I am just out on a Sadiq or a WR for us and kind of hoped if something like that fell to us it might get us a trade partner. I am not a big trade up guy, especially in the 1st but if we didn’t have to go too far to jump someone I would be in favor of looking at it. My opposition for the trade up is mostly against using a future first which I am completely against, always. A minor move in the right situation, I can probably stomach it. We have to address LOT somehow. To me it is a dire need. Code red.

I looked at their YouTube of that and when they picked a WR in the 1st I quit watching it. Enough with the WRs in the 1st. We have to figure out how to get slotted for LOT. Early.