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This team has shown they're willing to throw rookies into the fire. I think they might take the view that you can't fix everything in one season and RT of the future is one problem they can push to next year.
Good point. I think Miller is good value at 31.
I'm not confident that Pierce's catch rate would go up. It doesn't matter if his target rate goes up if he's not catching the passes...
That's still not bad considering Pierce ranked 1st in yards per reception and 1st in target depth.
Passer rating when targeted of 114 says he is a great receiver. Drake led the league in 2025 with a passer rating of 113.5.
But of course this is the big mistake Belichick made. And surely enough, next year never came. One year after that, 6 tackles went in the first 18. And what did Belichick do? He threw in the towel, traded back, and when no one worth it was left, he tried to trade back again, and no one bit. So they took a guy they had rated low 2nd rd (Cole Strange). They even admitted they took him too high.
You sure sound like you're trying to convince yourself that it's not bad when you know it is very bad.
Right, but compromises need to be made. If you're targeting EDGE and RT and none of them even make it to 50, you can only draft one of those positions and if you've determined that your priority is EDGE, then you have to sacrifice the RT.
I think you might end up disappointed. The timing seems more than coincidental.
Where I do agree with you that it could become a problem is if Will Campbell doesn't improve. We don't want to be in a position where two years in to the rebuild where we still need two OTs.
You sound like Pierce guessing at what your identity will be with the confidence in how much you’ll be paid. Not good. Hope I’m wrong.
I am purely thinking about the right side, right now. Though Campbell is a concern. Given the way football has changed with DEs moving all around the line, it seems RT is almost as important as LT used to be. You really need two strong guys there on both sides. Would I love it if we could find a Vollmer or a Cannon in the 2nd or 3rd? Yes absolutely. Heck, Rasheed Walker was a 6th. But that's very difficult to do. The best tackle in football right now, Malaita, was a low round pick, but he's a unicorn.
I really would doubt this kind of signing. Just given the injury history.
You may be right but the timing of the release is interesting.
I agree but thats is highly dependent on how Douglas performs. I could see him being a camp casualty and being replaced by a rookie.
Yeah, hasn't been a slot guy much at all.
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