The posters here can say what they like about this article, but his take on our OL was dead on. The question for me isn't " will the OL improve this year? "; but "how much will they improve with whom we've got playing for us now vs. how much better then that will we be this year and in the future if we add an early pick to the front line this draft".
I am satisfied enough with the operation of the front office and the coaching staff to ride with the choices they make this draft. I feel they have earned it.
My general preference is to trade down from #3 and, depending on the circumstances, consider trading down from #18, as long as those two trade get 1st round replacements plus one or more lower round draft selections in each trade that's made.
I take that view because I feel that as well as we did last year over the previous year, we still need to keep making huge improvements for this year and next year to reach a level where we are focused more on maintenance & development over growth & development.
I know one thing for sure.
After the draft, this board will be whining a lot about what ever was done before giving coaches training camp to determine the real NFL value of whom they selected. Too bad.