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I really like Jayden Reed, but I question if he will be there at 59. I am concerned Beane will go for a LB in 1 and then a lineman in 2, leaving sloppy seconds and thirds at WR in 3. They just don’t swell to value receiver like other teams.

As long as he can coach as well as Andy Reid then I’m all for it!

I disagree. Lots of Diggs comps to jordan Addison. If you could get him at 27, would anyone be upset? How about Steve smith comps to Zay flowers? That would also be a good problem to have…

I agree. I’m kinda concerned we will “fill holes” on offense in free agency and spend the draft on defensive players.

No more signing vets for the offense and drafting defense. We need to fill holes on the defense in FA and get younger on offense through the draft.

Not if Schoen thinks he has “1 potential”. Haha.

Exactly. That article lost all credibility with that one sentence.

I would LOVE this draft. Robinson is a top 5 talent, Jayden Reed is gonna be a really good receiver, and Brown hits like a truck. Vorhees would be a great value late and will only be there due to injury.

Robinson is more than “ok”. He’s widely considered a top 5 player in the entire draft. That said…I don’t want to trade up for him either. If he falls to 27, then I’d be more than ok with it.

Another case of when keeping it real goes wrong…

My hope is he flips the script and does for the defense what he has done for the offense the past couple years. Wait it out and get some bargain vets on prove it deals. Then dump premium picks and signings into the offense. Enough with these high priced d FAs and day 1 picks. Our d is good enough, which is all we need.

I totally agree. He helps with the protection issue and adds another weapon in the passing game. I think TE is a very real possibility at 27. Beane talked at length about TE in his pressers and said he wants playmakers and that doesn’t necessarily mean WR.

Beane has to do right by Allen this off-season and put premium assets into the offense. Plug defensive holes in FA and mid to late round picks. He’s created this situation and now it’s time to fix it.

John Michael Schmitz or Darnell Wright if OL. If they go offensive weapon then I want Jayden Reed or Dalton Kincaid.

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This is actually good for us. Addison would be a perfect compliment to Diggs and he might fall a little now. Don’t let the combine eliminate the fact that addisons game tape is elite and he’s one of the best receivers in the draft.

You left out John Michael Schmitz. I think he will be in heavy consideration based on his versatility and experience.

The difference between Reid and McD are substantial. One is offensive minded and the other is defensive minded. This is an offensive league that caters to the offense. Advantage Reid…

I don’t know if it was one play in particular, but I was an 11 year old kid growing up in south central pa, right in the middle of the Steelers, eagles, and redskins triangle. I didn’t succumb to liking one of those teams, but when the bills beat the raiders 51-3 in the afc title game to go to their first super bowl, I was hooked.

I honestly think our “excellent roster” argument has been overblown. In theory it SHOULD BE good, but there are holes everywhere. Our oline is a disaster. The WR depth is horrendous. The dline has first and second round picks all over it but we can’t sack the qb in the biggest moments. The secondary gives up too much. I just think we were all brainwashed into thinking this roster was “loaded” and we fail to recognize it really wasn’t after all, except for Allen, Diggs, and a few others. I’ll say this…the secondary is mainly on the coaching philosophies. They play way too far off the ball and allow the opposing offense easy throws so some of this argument is on coaching.

I urge you to go listen to Bruce Nolan’s podcast entitled “10,000 rats”. He put it out within the last week and it explains very well why the draft pick allocations are still an issue. It’s not nearly as simple as you make it out to be.

I get a feeling Beane will opt for someone to protect Allen. I also think he will fall in love with the versatility and experience of John Michael Schmitz.

Both Allen and Diggs are starting to take the gloves off. Before this year, there was never any indication that they were upset and they shouldn’t have been. The offense was fairly well stocked in 2020. The oline was pretty solid and Beasley and brown were humming. Diggs was in his first year. Davis was rolling as the fourth or fifth WR. It was a good unit. Then the off-season happened and we doubled down on DEs in round 1 and 2. We added sanders to a 1 year deal and a few other pieces on offense. Then last year, we threw some one year deals to some vets and re-upped with McKenzie. We took cook in 2 and Shakir in 5, but also spent our first on another defender and a third on a guy that can’t get in the field. My point is that Diggs and Allen have seen enough. Allen petitioned for brown and Beasley at the end of the year cause he didn’t trust his “weapons”. That’s on Beane and it’s a huge black eye considering his qb was begging for help during a possible SB season. Never mind the fact that Davis had one of the worst completions % of any qualified WR and Allen clearly didn’t trust his awful line. Diggs is no different. He can also see the resource allocations are insanely lopsided and is a huge reason he isn’t targeted as much as he should be when defenses figure us out. I think it’s to the point where you won’t hear as much of the “we love each other” talk and you will see more focused talk about winning. I just hope we don’t get into a situation where Allen is bitter like Aaron Rodgers about not getting help.

Underappreciate? No way…if anything, they overappreciate him. He was handed the number 2 job without any competition, which is something the FO is usually emphatic about. They broke their own philosophy and it but them.

I’m thinking day 3. If the defense takes a bit of dip in ranking at the benefit of the offense, then I’m all for it. If our d is top 15, that will be good enough as long as we build a wall of an OL and get a WR2.