you make this statement with nothing to back it up....only hope yet given no grief for it.. yet when someone brings up a guard they studied, discussed at length for several months, and put into mock drafts its considered spontaneous fretting. lol only on CZ.
You are correct that I did not back up my opinion re: the likely future performance of Gavin Escobar. It's kind of the point of my statement that we're going to have to wait and see. The reason being, as I explicitly said, TEs typically need a season or two to develop, and it was stated on draft day that this was a player who was going to have to develop both strength and blocking to play well in this league.
As for Warford, complaining about passing on him in the second when we'd taken and interior OL in the first, had a player we liked on board already, and later added a veteran off the street who turned out to be a nice addition is, I'm sorry, fretting over nothing. We obviously prioritized fixing the red zone offensive problems over stock piling an additional OG using a premium pick at a position that it has been repeatedly demonstrated can be filled from the middle rounds or lower. It would have been dumb to spend premium resources at an OG there, and complaining about not doing it is pointless.
We had a good draft. We've got good OG play right now. We've got a swing backup who can also play C for us on game day. We can develop another quality OG at marginal cost starting this offseason and not set ourselves back. It doesn't matter how much you may have wanted Warford to begin with, or how many mock drafts you put him in. It doesn't matter all that much how well he's playing. Other teams are going to draft players who play well in their systems, too. It's spontaneous fretting because there's no reason for it, and it only cropped up because of a random tweet that's just brought about by all this Guard-fretting that's gone on this entire last season when the problem with the team was never really with the OG play to begin with.
