I would consider trading up for Spencer Fano...play him at guard. I'm also thinking we might make fewer than 4 picks...trade up at some point using later picks and possibly later picks from next year if needed. I still see a few players that might have a good chance doing something in the league but who knows. It seems weird this year kinda, lots of third round type talent imo. It feels like the third round starts at like pick 25 and goes to like 75-90 or so imo. Should be fun to see who has the best scouting department.
Given what the Giants would have wanted from us, I’m glad we missed out on Dexter Lawrence. We still likely have to pay Spoon and perhaps D Hall this year, then next year we have Darnold, Murphy, Leo and Barner. Dexter Lawrence was looking for a contract extension that two years from now when he’s in his thirties might look like a big dead cap hit. There will likely be pro bowlers taken in this year’s 2nd round. We can get one of those at 32. Richard Sherman just interviews South Carolina CB Cisse and I loved how he came across. I went back and watched some film on him. He’s aggressive, tough and smart. One of his coaches remarked about him he knows not only his assignment, but the assignment of all 11 players on the defense on any given play. He’s raw, but he’s 20 years old. Karl Scott can do something with a smart eager hard working player like Cisse. There are others like him in this draft. Coleman at 96 if he’s fully healthy could be a very solid RB to pair with Holani and then Charbs. Haulcy or Kilgore could be at 64 and could be winners. Caleb Banks has been mocked in the 3rd round. If he’s healthy and gets the coaching he needs, he can be a pro bowler. We can hit in this draft — and by “we,” I mean JS can hit in this draft.
Yep. Like cisse and Coleman for the same reason...they are both Seahawky studs. By that I mean aggressive smash mouth Dawgs. Coleman punishes defenders with (if I have the right RB here) some eye popping YAC stats. Adding those two would be a win for us. Getting some sleeper talent at Edge and, perhaps, NT would be icing on the Lombardi.
100% Coleman’s 2024 stats and YAC were crazy good for him. He was not 100% this year, but maybe he’ll be 100% by the start of 2026. I can easily see Cisse and much better run defender than Woolen, and a much more consistent pass defender. Woolen had great play potential, but his entire career was hampered by inconsistency in pass defense. MM wants consistency. He wants to make the opponents earn it. He knows it’s not going to be easy to put together series with 3 and 4 first downs against his defense. Make them work and sooner or later they run up against a 3 and out or a turnover on downs.
I’ve become 100% convinced of this, you state it so much more eloquently as usual.
If either Jeremiyah Love or Mansoor Delane are still on the board at #15, trade our entire draft to Tampa and get them
Otherwise, trade down down down and take the ones offering 2027 picks — especially if they’re teams likely to be picking in the top 20.
And I’m REALLY loving Schneider’s prescience, discipline and conviction. He’s made the 2027 draft our Reload Year by accumulating 12 picks (!) so far (could get another 3rd rounder so 13 picks if Durden gets poached next year which is likely). So next year he goes back to being a lot younger, can let a couple big contracts go elsewhere, and sets us up for the next 5-yr run.
Meanwhile Rams are betting the entire farm on 2026, damn the future. They’ll be more formidable than this year, a real force and my personal odds on favorite, but then the bills come due.
FTR.
Meanwhile Schneider is setting us up for a full decade at or near the top. Hear hear!!
It’s just tough to calculate what that even looks like at pick 32. In a weak draft class, is a team going to give up a 2027 second rounder for pick32? I doubt it.
I would consider trading up for Spencer Fano...play him at guard. I'm also thinking we might make fewer than 4 picks...trade up at some point using later picks and possibly later picks from next year if needed. I still see a few players that might have a good chance doing something in the league but who knows. It seems weird this year kinda, lots of third round type talent imo. It feels like the third round starts at like pick 25 and goes to like 75-90 or so imo. Should be fun to see who has the best scouting department.
Given what the Giants would have wanted from us, I’m glad we missed out on Dexter Lawrence. We still likely have to pay Spoon and perhaps D Hall this year, then next year we have Darnold, Murphy, Leo and Barner. Dexter Lawrence was looking for a contract extension that two years from now when he’s in his thirties might look like a big dead cap hit. There will likely be pro bowlers taken in this year’s 2nd round. We can get one of those at 32. Richard Sherman just interviews South Carolina CB Cisse and I loved how he came across. I went back and watched some film on him. He’s aggressive, tough and smart. One of his coaches remarked about him he knows not only his assignment, but the assignment of all 11 players on the defense on any given play. He’s raw, but he’s 20 years old. Karl Scott can do something with a smart eager hard working player like Cisse. There are others like him in this draft. Coleman at 96 if he’s fully healthy could be a very solid RB to pair with Holani and then Charbs. Haulcy or Kilgore could be at 64 and could be winners. Caleb Banks has been mocked in the 3rd round. If he’s healthy and gets the coaching he needs, he can be a pro bowler. We can hit in this draft — and by “we,” I mean JS can hit in this draft.
Yep. Like cisse and Coleman for the same reason...they are both Seahawky studs. By that I mean aggressive smash mouth Dawgs. Coleman punishes defenders with (if I have the right RB here) some eye popping YAC stats. Adding those two would be a win for us. Getting some sleeper talent at Edge and, perhaps, NT would be icing on the Lombardi.
100% Coleman’s 2024 stats and YAC were crazy good for him. He was not 100% this year, but maybe he’ll be 100% by the start of 2026. I can easily see Cisse and much better run defender than Woolen, and a much more consistent pass defender. Woolen had great play potential, but his entire career was hampered by inconsistency in pass defense. MM wants consistency. He wants to make the opponents earn it. He knows it’s not going to be easy to put together series with 3 and 4 first downs against his defense. Make them work and sooner or later they run up against a 3 and out or a turnover on downs.
I’ve become 100% convinced of this, you state it so much more eloquently as usual.
If either Jeremiyah Love or Mansoor Delane are still on the board at #15, trade our entire draft to Tampa and get them
Otherwise, trade down down down and take the ones offering 2027 picks — especially if they’re teams likely to be picking in the top 20.
And I’m REALLY loving Schneider’s prescience, discipline and conviction. He’s made the 2027 draft our Reload Year by accumulating 12 picks (!) so far (could get another 3rd rounder so 13 picks if Durden gets poached next year which is likely). So next year he goes back to being a lot younger, can let a couple big contracts go elsewhere, and sets us up for the next 5-yr run.
Meanwhile Rams are betting the entire farm on 2026, damn the future. They’ll be more formidable than this year, a real force and my personal odds on favorite, but then the bills come due.
FTR.
Meanwhile Schneider is setting us up for a full decade at or near the top. Hear hear!!
Trading 2026 picks for 2027 picks might be a good move. Although they have quite a few picks in 2027 already.
It’s just tough to calculate what that even looks like at pick 32. In a weak draft class, is a team going to give up a 2027 second rounder for pick32? I doubt it.
Always Jets, Browns, Titans to fleece. :)
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