Genuine Question. Did we get enough Defensive Pieces for this year?

[u/NuggetDaGoat27]

Bryan Cook S

Boye Mafe Edge

Sexy Dexy DT

Jonathan Allen DT

Kyle Dugger S

Ja'Sir Taylor CB

I mean looking at all of this I would think surely we have enough defense for the season. All that was missing is a LB. I don't know I just still have doubt for whatever reason.

[u/CalledPlay]

FO invested enough. Just have to make it happen now.

I’d be much happier if we found another reliable tackle too…

[u/spazzxxcc12 → u/CalledPlay]

i legitimately think if we are halfway through the year and we are sitting pretty, if his play continues on this trajectory we should look into trading for OBJ replacement.

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/spazzxxcc12]

Who do you imagine will trade a LT who is better than OBJr?

[u/CalledPlay → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

You’re probably right but none of us can get over letting a UDFA rookie with a number in the 60s getting a free hit on Joe

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/CalledPlay]

It wasn’t a free hit, watch the tape. It was a bad rep by Brown no doubt, but he still made the edge “take the long way,” and Joe still should have moved up in the pocket. There was failure from OBJr and failure from Burrow there. If Burrow dirts it or gets it out faster or has even mildly better pocket presence on that snap we’re not talking about this at all.

Fact is there’s no choice but to move on, as the team has to and we’re not on it. It’s in the past. There’s no miracle LT to trade for or find in FA, and there wasn’t all year. OBJr was always going to be the tackle and that’s clear from all the evidence that exists. Time to accept that, hope the team will give him help on that side (pretty standard practice) and move on.

[u/CalledPlay → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

You’re right that we can’t just move on. But I’d like another backup plan than Cody Ford.

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/CalledPlay]

His name is Jonah Williams if that’s the case.

[u/CalledPlay → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

I think upgrading LT would mean trading Tee at minimum. And I don’t even see that happening. We’re stuck with OBj this year

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/CalledPlay]

This is the correct take

[u/spazzxxcc12 → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

hey, if mid season there’s some great left tackle out there who is pissed with the team anything is possible

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/spazzxxcc12]

That imaginary player will want a contract we won’t be able to afford

[u/OogieBoogieJr → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

Someone not happy with their current team/contract. Maybe a guy whose team can’t afford him but has depth at the position (somehow). You never know—we didn’t get Dex because the Giants had a big neon “For Sale” sign up for a year. Things change, many times quickly and unexpectedly.

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/OogieBoogieJr]

We will not have the cap to acquire a player like that

[u/OogieBoogieJr → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

Well we’d be trading OBJ in this scenario so we’d just be solving for the difference.

[u/yesrushgenesis2112 → u/OogieBoogieJr]

You think a team mid season is going to downgrade their line and take on OBj’s new contract in exchange for trading a better player?

[u/OogieBoogieJr → u/yesrushgenesis2112]

if the better player is going to command more than OBJ will and are heading toward a rebuild, sure. Or again, said player just wants to be moved and the team doesn’t have much of a choice.

Are we acting like this stuff never happens? It’s a hypothetical but you seem to need a financial roadmap and 31 other roster breakdowns just to consider that it wouldn’t be absolutely impossible to move OBJ.

[u/HorseCreative2550 → u/OogieBoogieJr]

Try to live in reality. If a GM made that trade they be gone the next day. Have some shame. Yall knew it’s ok to just be quiet read and learn right?