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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
So despite there being a lot of outrage over the thread idea, I think we’re all circling to the same basic ideas.
- we’re not gonna get a blue chip LT in free agency. Their own team will throw huge cash to keep them, or will get beat out by the many teams with an absurd amount of cash
- for that reason teams will probably overpay for average OTs out of desperation . We would probably need to overpay a middling LT or try to find something in the junk pile
- any pick without a trade up is gonna have huge bust potential
- given what we’ve seen walking into next season with Wanya, Kingsley, and humphries from what we’ve seen carries huge risk
- we don’t have good trade chips given where we’re drafting. It will take a huge trade off of picks to even land an average, even overpriced LT. Judging by the obj dialogue nobody seems to have much interest in that either.
I don’t think anyone disagrees that our options look bleak. I also don’t think anyone disagrees that we must fix LT and can’t punt this another year. So yeah, rock and a hard place. Before you just shit on this kind of idea, realize that the alternatives aren’t very good either. It’s a trade I really really wouldn’t want to make. But it isn’t insane to acknowledge that mcduffie is probably our only trade chip and our options otherwise look a little bleak
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Our options only look "bleak" if you want a franchise LT this offseason.
Our options are certainly not bleak if you just want adequate steady play there for at least next season and hopefully one or two more.