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You may be right. But we'll worry about it then. For this year with Groot (who I'm pretty sure the regime sees as less than a concern than you), Von, Epenesa, and Toohill and with money coming in June to address it further if Beane sees it necessary - it'll have been properly addressed for this year. Save for something unlikely happening like Laiatu Latu falling into our laps, there isn't a DE worth taking at 28.

Newton is just as good and some even have him as better than Murphy. Neither one of them should be available at 28. If one is, we'll have to consider it.

Nah, that's not your car. You were the only passenger on a train that didn't and was never going to leave the station.

If we are to address it, which I'm not convinced Beane sees it as big of a need as you after re-signing Epenesa, signing Toohill, and with Von coming off a full year and getting a full offseason removed from the ACL, I see it being addressed just as the Floyd signing last year was. Someone like Jadeveon Clowney, Emmanuel Ogbah, Yannick Ngakoue, Carl Lawson, or Michael Danna (maybe even someone else cut post-Draft) will be looking for a team still when Tre's money comes in. We'll get the best of what's left when musical chairs stops just as we did last year with Leonard Floyd. This really isn't the Draft for Edge Rusher. Especially where we're picking in Rounds 1 and 2.

I'm almost positive they will be. But there's more than 3 QB's who will go in the Top 5-10 and more than 3 team's who need QB's. Need for QB drives up prices and tosses the Trade Chart out the window. For example, when we needed Josh, we paid a 1st and 2 2nd's just to move up 5 spots. That was an overpay. Teams are willing to do that for a QB bc, as Beane put it, if it works and you land a Franchise QB "who gives a sh-t?" And this doesn't even take into account a team needing a WR passing on MHJ and moving from the top 5 to essentially the 2nd Round. You can quote the Trade Chart all you want, as others have said, it's about as likely that this trade would happen as winning the lottery. You'd have to not only meet the chart, but surpass it (and probably by a fair amount) for a team like Arizona to even consider it.

Oh, for sure. There may be a guy or two we sign as Undrafted. I'm just saying that the gathering of local prospects who need a place to display themselves is nowhere near similar to a Top 30 visit.

If Diggs was or is to be moved (which is HIGHLY unlikely) - it would have occured before his 18.5m salary became locked in on 3/17 or after 6/1. We literally cannot take the hit it would cost us before 6/1. We have about 8.5m now and will get another 10 for Tre, but that won't come until after 6/1. We'll need to sign picks, have money for the Practice Squad, money for spots still needing addressing after the Draft, and money for the season. We can't take on 31m. We wouldn't even be able to sign our Draft Picks. We've done the extensions we can do that would save us major cap in Taron and Dion (Douglas couldn't get done and was a re-structure instead). There's no one left to cut that can get us savings. We've done pretty much all of the restructures we can do to save cap. The only way we can come up with money at this point is to do an Oliver re-structure and a Milano re-structure. That wouldn't be REMOTELY enough to even get back to zero, let alone have the money we need for everything else. It is feasibly impossible to move him before 6/1, no matter what you think.

We're signing only budget guys and letting people like Sebastian Joseph-Day, Julian Blackmon, and Austin Johnson leave the building because money's so tight. But, yeah, Beane would have no problem eating 30+m in a hit for moving Diggs during the Draft.

You'd be lucky to find a single player who gets picked in the 7th at a Local Pro Day. For example, Malcolm Epps is the 32nd ranked TE on DraftCountdown. Not remotely similar to a Top 30 visit.

Age 28, 21 starts in 65 games. Probably a solid backup Center option behind McGovern.

Not going to cut it. Teams like Minnesota who have not one, but two picks before ours this year alone at 11 and 23 need to get there for a QB. A number of teams who pick WAY sooner than we do need to get up to that area for QB that are picking well before us. The price tag is going to be higher than normal this year because of the competition. Combine that with where we're picking and them having to drop 24 picks and knowing that we consistently pick at the bottom of the 1st - it's going to take 3 1's right off the bat plus more. Probably still doesn't get it done.

The 3 RB's we know that they met with at the Combine are Audric Estime, Braelon Allen, and Frank Gore Jr. Estime and Allen will go higher than Issac. Gore is probably a UDFA. Allen is my guy. If I can get him in Mocks after WR or DT, I take him. Probably a little too rich for our blood IRL. But my hope is that RB's fall in general and that maybe he falls a little more than expected for not running a 40 at the Combine or his Pro Day.

What do you think a 5th or a 6th is going to get us?

This is true. There's definitely names not on the list that we met with that we don't know about. The only ones we know that we definitely didn't because it's been documented are the top 3 WR's (MHJ, Nabers, Odunze) and Ladd McConkey.

It would have to be even more than that. There's a number of teams looking to get into the positions you need to be to land MHJ to select their QB. That's going to drive prices up. Minnesota for example needs to get a guy. And they have 11 and 23 as ammunition to do it. And the other issue on top of the astronomical cost of what it would take for us to get there is the fact that some of the teams we need to trade with (Arizona, LAC, NYG) are expected to go WR. So they're not just going to give him to us and take whatever's left at 28. They're going to take him themselves. For us to get them to give him to us, it's going to have to be an offer that they have no choice to refuse. Which is a price that's more than that and more than Atlanta paid for Julio Jones. It's not worth it any way you slice it. Especially when you figure in moving Diggs costs us 31m in space until 6/1. We literally cannot move him at the Draft. We don't have any way to account for that, pay Draft picks, and Practice Squad for the season (let alone final touches on the roster post Draft and spending money for the season) - even with Tre's money coming. It'd have to be 28, 60, 2025 1st and 2026 1st to even start the conversation to beat out others and convince someone to pass on MHJ. You don't pay a price like that for anything but a Franchise QB. I don't care how good the prospect is.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39772593/ex-saints-wr-michael-thomas-enter-pretrial-diversion-program Yikes. Legal problems and injury prone concerns. No wonder no one's touching Michael Thomas.

That's the problem I find with all the Simulators lately. Idk if they're all just waiting on more consensus opinion for a bigger update as we get closer. But the rankings on all of them are really off. Like the one I did last. Javon Baker isn't sniffing the end of Round 4. Gabe Hall in Round 6 is even more ridiculous. Things like that are rampant across the sims. The trades are even more ridiculous. Some of these are like offering up their entire Draft to move up a couple spots and take your pick. At this point, I find them to be like an entertaining video game. Fun to play, but absolutely not reality.

Totally incorrect. Watkins was as big of a prospect as MHJ is now - and bigger. He was considered maybe the best WR prospect ever. He was a "can't miss" guy. Anyone claiming MHJ is a "Future Hall of Famer" before even being Drafted is being absolutely ridiculous.

How'd Chris Jones, Derrick Henry, Mike Evans, Tee Higgins, Michael Pittman, DE Josh Allen, Khalil Mack/Joey Bosa, Christian Wilkins, Calvin Ridley, Courtland Sutton, and every other high priced or unlikely acquisition you posted about exclusively for months work out for you?

Oh, I know you were. That's why I put a laughing emoji myself. Sad part is there probably is people who think that's legit.

In today's day and age, I don't think a Mary Jane gas mask would have the same effect on a prospect falling as it did with Tunsil then.

This isn't news. He listed Allen among a list of like 4 QB's he'd like to play with. Doesn't matter though. He's going to go in the Top 4-6 picks. We won't be able to sniff him. A free fall for MHJ is like falling from 4th to like 8th 😂

Quite a bit. Especially in the higher Rounds. There hasn't been a player we've taken in Round 1 that we didn't meet with at the Combine. It's essentially the official job interview when it comes to this regime.