Carson4MVP

I think you move Jonah back to RT where he played in college. Put Sewell at LT and then attack OG and C in FA and in the 3/4 rounds.

I’d obviously love getting 3 future firsts and a second. I’d rather us start building talent around Burrow now rather than go this route. Now is the time to surround him with talent and let him grow rather than putting a bunch of future rookies with him.

Yeah. Ideally anyone you are taking in the top 5 of a draft you hope is a generational talent like AJ Green was for us. But when you look at positions like TE, OG, C, DT, LB, S these positions are usually a lot deeper, you can win with less talent at them and especially at TE, who was the last TE drafted in the first round who paid off his value. I think you are much better off drafting great athletes in middle rounds at that position and developing them. It traditionally is a position that take a long time to develop.

I’ve believe the only positions you should consider inside the top 5 of the draft are QB, OT, WR, DE, CB. If you don’t have a need for one, or one of value isn’t available in that years draft, you trade down. IMO, Sewell is the only guy we should be considering at 3. If the NYJ take him (or trade their pick to another team that takes him), I think we should move down and pick up more assets.

I think all 4 are top 10 picks. Depending on the draft order, I could see 3 of them being in the top 3. Jets, Jags, Lions, Falcons, Panthers and Cowboys could all be targeting a QB. The only 3 loss or worse teams who likely wouldn’t take a QB is us, Chargers and Eagles. So if we are sitting at 2, Chargers at 3, and one of those teams are at 4, I would be shocked if the Chargers didn’t trade up a spot to get the QB they wanted. We won’t get multiple firsts to move back a spot, but look at the 49ers and Bears in 2017 in a similar situation. 49ers weren’t taking a QB. Everyone knew it. B

I also don’t think Fields goes #2. I think he will be the 3rd QB taken.

It’s not about who we are going to take. It’s about blocking anyone else from trading up with us. Knowing that we can move back 3-5 spots from 2 and still get Sewell, it’s all about stopping us from trading 2-3 spots down and someone else getting their QB.

Well, if we get ahead of the Jags in the draft, I would think we could trade back with them. They have a lot of assets this year and would not want to risk losing “their guy” with whoever else we considered trading back with. I expect the first 3 picks to be QBs this year.

And Lou Anoroumo or however you spell it. Would love to bring in a better DC.

I’d call a team like Jacksonville about their OL. They seem to have every player available for trade.

Have we had a “good” OL since Richie Braham retired? Certainly it hasn’t been this bad. But we have had significant holes ever since.

Agreed. Even with his good game yesterday, the long pass from JB, the old AJ would have high pointed and brought in no problem. He just lazily tried catching it at his hip and the defender knocked it away. It’s tough to watch now knowing how good he was.

I think I’d prefer Bienemy just to get an offensive minded coach for Burrow. But it takes a different kind of mind to work for MB. Maybe Zimmer is a better fit because of that

I think we need wholesale coaching changes on this team. I don’t know if it’s Zac, but the shell we went into defensively when we were up 21-0 is inexcusable. We play man coverage at the 2nd highest rate in the NFL and we dropped almost exclusively to a soft zone to end the half. Just let a mediocre, decrepit quarterback pick us a part with a banged up OL. Between this game and the Eagles game, we just don’t know how to close a game out. We should be 3-3 this year at worst with even mediocre coaching.

Offense seems out of sync. Not our best effort out there. Don’t like us leaving this game on Bullocks shoulders.