Post by Josey Wales on Oct 5, 2020 6:47:32 GMT -6
Outside of O'Neill I would have to disagree, WI. Elflein and Bradbury have both struggled mightily with the former grading out as the worst guard in the league last year. And I didn't think it was possible but Samia has looked even worse than Elflein.
That's the problem when you draft great run blockers that can't pass protect, when most teams pass the ball around 60% of the time.
As far as the draft goes, Rick hasn't exactly hit it out of the park the last three years drafting lineman and corners, nor has he found the next Danielle Hunter in the later rounds, although he's thrown a crap-ton of picks at the wall trying to. Do you really trust him to be able to fill enough holes to make us relevant again by trading back. But to give credit where credit is due, Dantzler and Jefferson seem to be great picks early on. Gladney...not so much, but it's still early for any ultimate judgmentoneither of them.
I'd rather take 1 player that brings instant relevance for the next decade and gives the highest probability of beating those cheese-swilling bastards year in and year out.
JMO
I'd say Bradbury has been respectable. But they haven't drafted any guards high in the draft... and no Cleveland isn't a guard. I'm so pissed they're wasting their time on that. It's time to put some real resources at guard.
He's a great run blocker but he still gets pushed back into the face of the QB far too often. But he's small and that's going to happen to small players facing mammoth DT's.
And I don't know what's up with Cleveland unless he's looked so bad in practice that they feel it's his only chance.
Then again maybe he was drafted to play guard, that's the position some draft scouts were projecting him to play at the next level.