I don’t understand the discontent in drafting a guard at 13?
It’s the second most valueable position on our offense behind qb with the way McDaniel uses them heavily in swinging out on tosses, screens and most importantly we have a pocket passer who gets the ball out quickly making inside line play more important than tackles. Tua stands a chance of getting the ball out and completing it with outside pressure, however everything is disrupted with inside pressure like last year.
Our run game goes to ****, our deep passing game goes to ****, we have probably like the worst 3rd and and 4th and short running completion % than probably any other team in nfl history.
Is it the old myth that great guards can be found later in the draft? I’m not really seeing it. This is more true for power run teams that look for big run maulers. For a finesse team like us that would value athletic pass blockers, they aren’t too common as we are mostly looking at former tackles. The best two guards of the last decade in Quentin Nelson and future hall of famer Zach martin were both first round top 20 picks.
Is it they are a cheaper position? Because again that’s not true. We just saw the most successful team in the last decade franchise their guard for 23 million and we lost our own good guard for 20 million last season to another team.
I just don’t get, it makes no sense to me, multiple people have shrugged off guard at 13 and it just makes no sense to me. It’s by far our biggest need and there’s some talented high floor players who’s scouting report label them as potential all pro guards so can someone please explain the reluctance to pick one when it’s not only our biggest need but our most important need.
