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could be beane thinks shavers and virgil are better than what's available.

Totally agree. If I'm a OT in the SEC I'm playing the outside move until he proves he can counter. Seems like he has enough athletic ability to add those moves so hopefully he can. I thought I heard on the broadcast he was around 280 now, so maybe adding a few pounds and talking to Bruce about his spin move will up his passrush game.

HERE we go!

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I look at it like this: If one of the 15 - 20 or so "first round talents" get within striking distance of a move up, Beane seems to do that. Since we don't have a third and are picking lower in the round, it seems like the value for a sizeable move won't be there this year. I think Beane values the draft picks even more now that the salary cap accounts for Josh, as opposed to prior when there was more money available for free agents; he has to get more value from the draft class. I think any one of the first three picks could be in play for a trade down, but I think picks 3-7 have a higher than normal chance of moving up. This year it will be expensive to move up in the mid rounds, but I think Beane will find some value in players to do it and we have the ammo.

Seems like the the Bradberry visit put a little gas on the negotiations.

Someone needs to make our drafted DT's feel good about themselves, he's the guy!

Pretty extreme way to make sure they're healthy for the playoffs. Yay?

You probably won't notice if one of them get hurt? That's all I got right now. I do agree with logic in his post above that there was opportunity with the chargers and palmer didn't take advantage of it. Paying these free agents seems like a waste of money, we really need to do a better job of drafting middle/late round wr's who can contribute. We should not need to drop fa money into the wr group.

I look at it like the talent is there and it would be up to our coaches and players to get him to perform. I think he and Russ weren't on the same page last year and Pickens had issues with the offense. Is he more like Diggs than not? Probably, but IMO we need guys with talent like Pickens to win playoff games. It's up to our culture to handle personality issues.

I wonder what the Steelers would want for Pickens.

He seems more driven to win than play with his brother. It always seemed one way to me, his brother seemed to do most of the talking. And Buffalo probably would have traded him to Dallas if they had wanted him. Beane said KC was off the table, I didn't hear anything about Dallas. Why wouldn't he want to play with Patrick Mahomes to give himself a great chance of playing in the Super Bowl? They're a pretty good bet. Andy Reid seems to not mind the crazies. Seems like they also have a need. What else do you need?

My money is on KC. I think that's been his goal when he decided to leave the Bills.

Change we change this to "So Ralphsy"? This was certainly the largest pooch given the business in a long line of pooches.

I hope the eagles get Barkley his yards. Would be fitting for the Chiefs to give it up, although it will be tough.

It is also not filet. Point being it's not easy to get him down after he gets moving. We haven't done it much but we need to be able to.

Wherever their spines are?

You don't get Mahommes on the ground with one guy. You need multiple guys.

I like how they are bringing the lumber when they get there.

Short

Nice!

Less and bigger is better??

Danny Crossman is available.. 😁

I'm at the point where I agree. We have to inject talent in places where we can excel in the playoffs, and having better pass catchers strengthens a strength. Otherwise it seems we'll be good in the regular season and "have a chance" in the post season. We need someone to raise Joshs's game and overcome the coaching deficiency we're seeing instead of relying on Josh to raise everyone else's.

I think you're assuming something happens with Pickens. I think the Steelers track record is to see if the he get it headed in the right direction by camp and if not they find a trade partner at some point. Tomiln talked about him needing to mature, etc after the season. One of the reasons it's so tough to do mocks at this point.