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rmcjacket23

rmcjacket23

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JAAM said:
Why?
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Poor roster construction. There's three quality pass catchers on the roster already, and the draft hasn't even happened yet.

Not to mention that the QB is on the franchise tag.

I can MAYBE get on board with it IF, and only IF, Lamar signs first. I have zero interest in committing to Hopkins or OBJ for a single season, and then trading Lamar away in March.

Not to mention that you'll have a QB, and three WRs, who have spent a large quantity of time on the sidelines the last two years or so. I'd rather have some younger receivers that will grow with whoever the QB is in the future.
 
JoeyFlex5

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rmcjacket23 said:
Poor roster construction. There's three quality pass catchers on the roster already, and the draft hasn't even happened yet.

Not to mention that the QB is on the franchise tag.

I can MAYBE get on board with it IF, and only IF, Lamar signs first. I have zero interest in committing to Hopkins or OBJ for a single season, and then trading Lamar away in March.

Not to mention that you'll have a QB, and three WRs, who have spent a large quantity of time on the sidelines the last two years or so. I'd rather have some younger receivers that will grow with whoever the QB is in the future.
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You’re fucking boring

Btw we’ve tried the “younger receivers” route and that ain’t all it’s cracked up to be either.
 
rmcjacket23

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JoeyFlex5 said:
You’re fucking boring

Btw we’ve tried the “younger receivers” route and that ain’t all it’s cracked up to be either.
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Neither is the "lets sign the aging, banged up veteran and hope he saves us". For every Boldin, there's a Maclin. For every Smith, there's a Crabtree.

And this time it ain't "hey guys lets ship a 6th rounder for a veteran and pay him $5M a year" either.

Not to mention if trade Lamar in March, which looks about as likely a possibility as anything else with Lamar at the moment, Hopkins is getting shipped out the next day, and OBJ is playing elsewhere.

Yippeeeeeee
 
rossihunter2

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JoeyFlex5 said:
You’re fucking boring

Btw we’ve tried the “younger receivers” route and that ain’t all it’s cracked up to be either.
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also this would 100% be instead of taking a WR early
too many mouths to feed/playing with more than 1 football is such a silly criticism too

teams need multiple weapons and we've got some notoriously unhealthy ones

not saying that OBJ or DHop are the perfect guys you bring in, but they're so much better than what we have and allow us to hot patch a position that gave us significant trouble last year

if this were a better WR draft then sure, go get another 1st round pick at WR

but bring in DHop, get a CB in R1 and this team is starting to look pretty scary

ill understand if they balk at the DHop contract numbers in the end (in terms of cap and massaging the cap) but it's hard to see a better way of addressing those 2 key spots with impact players than DHop + R1 CB
 
rossihunter2

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rmcjacket23 said:
Neither is the "lets sign the aging, banged up veteran and hope he saves us". For every Boldin, there's a Maclin. For every Smith, there's a Crabtree.

And this time it ain't "hey guys lets ship a 6th rounder for a veteran and pay him $5M a year" either.

Not to mention if trade Lamar in March, which looks about as likely a possibility as anything else with Lamar at the moment, Hopkins is getting shipped out the next day, and OBJ is playing elsewhere.

Yippeeeeeee
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you say that like that's a problem?
what's wrong with a 1 year rental with either of these guys? - even better if this really is Lamar's last year, try and go and win 1 on the way out
 
UPennChem

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rossihunter2 said:
also this would 100% be instead of taking a WR early
too many mouths to feed/playing with more than 1 football is such a silly criticism too

teams need multiple weapons and we've got some notoriously unhealthy ones

not saying that OBJ or DHop are the perfect guys you bring in, but they're so much better than what we have and allow us to hot patch a position that gave us significant trouble last year

if this were a better WR draft then sure, go get another 1st round pick at WR

but bring in DHop, get a CB in R1 and this team is starting to look pretty scary

ill understand if they balk at the DHop contract numbers in the end (in terms of cap and massaging the cap) but it's hard to see a better way of addressing those 2 key spots with impact players than DHop + R1 CB
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Completely agree
 
JAAM

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JoeyFlex5

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rmcjacket23 said:
Neither is the "lets sign the aging, banged up veteran and hope he saves us". For every Boldin, there's a Maclin. For every Smith, there's a Crabtree.

And this time it ain't "hey guys lets ship a 6th rounder for a veteran and pay him $5M a year" either.

Not to mention if trade Lamar in March, which looks about as likely a possibility as anything else with Lamar at the moment, Hopkins is getting shipped out the next day, and OBJ is playing elsewhere.

Yippeeeeeee
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Okay so… Lamar traded in March, Beckham leaves in FA, we trade hop.

Where’s the harm? Where’s the foul?

Also don’t even compare deandre Hopkins and Odell Beckham to fucking Jeremy Maclin and Michael Crabtree. The difference is that each of the former 2 spent more than a season as a top 2 receiver in the league
 
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allblackraven

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QtR Nevermore said:
He can't have offered himself a high enough fee for the interview yet, and he's having trouble getting in touch with himself to sort it out.

At this point we'll probably have to wait till after the draft to see if there's any movement.
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The wait might be over early in the 1st round, though.
 
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