hra8700
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He said that we had frederick, escobar, and williams all within five spots of eachother starting in the early 20's on our board. Give prior info, that means we had them all grouped together between the 22nd and 27th players on our board. As previously mentioned we had 19 players with 1st round grades. Our strategy was to hope that one of the two guards (cooper and warmack obviously) or maybe a tackle that could play guard (obviously fluker) would be there. If not, we would trade down because Jerry was determined to get a difference making interior lineman. They were targeting Frederick with the move down to 31, and expected he would be there. Because they were determined to get an interior lineman, they were not willing to risk moving back a few more spots so they took him at 31. Jerry notes they specifically wanted to take him in the 1st because of the fifth year option, and that they want him and smith to be the foundation of the line for years to come.
One of the big reasons they didnt take another player at 18 even though they had first round grades on some players is that they predicted they would be able to get those 3 players with the extra high 3rd. Jerry talks a lot about playing 3 tight end sets and that they really like Hanna; Garrett mostly talks about how they want to play more two tight end and split escabor wide or play one of the two as an h back (aka: the patriots). They talked a lot about how escabor was one of three pass catching tight ends in the draft (made it sound like they preferred both Ertz and Eifert, though cant be sure) and that they spent a lot of time trying to make sure the pick would alter the scheme in a positive way.
Whats really interesting is if you watch the predraft presser jerry basically said all of this. He said that teams would take interior lineman high this year because its not worth paying them in free agency nowadays, he said we would be very interested in moving back, and he talked about the importance of the 5th year option on 1st round picks.
So all in all, it seems like Frederick was probably the highest player on our board at 31, but we knew other teams had him a bit lower, but we were hell beant on getting an interior offensive lineman and he was the last one so we pulled the trigger. The way Jerry talks about it I can totally beleive that we had floyd high on our board, but because we thought williams would be there in the 3rd and we really wanted frederick, we still made the trade (though where we ranked floyd is still very much uncertain based on the two pressors)
One of the big reasons they didnt take another player at 18 even though they had first round grades on some players is that they predicted they would be able to get those 3 players with the extra high 3rd. Jerry talks a lot about playing 3 tight end sets and that they really like Hanna; Garrett mostly talks about how they want to play more two tight end and split escabor wide or play one of the two as an h back (aka: the patriots). They talked a lot about how escabor was one of three pass catching tight ends in the draft (made it sound like they preferred both Ertz and Eifert, though cant be sure) and that they spent a lot of time trying to make sure the pick would alter the scheme in a positive way.
Whats really interesting is if you watch the predraft presser jerry basically said all of this. He said that teams would take interior lineman high this year because its not worth paying them in free agency nowadays, he said we would be very interested in moving back, and he talked about the importance of the 5th year option on 1st round picks.
So all in all, it seems like Frederick was probably the highest player on our board at 31, but we knew other teams had him a bit lower, but we were hell beant on getting an interior offensive lineman and he was the last one so we pulled the trigger. The way Jerry talks about it I can totally beleive that we had floyd high on our board, but because we thought williams would be there in the 3rd and we really wanted frederick, we still made the trade (though where we ranked floyd is still very much uncertain based on the two pressors)
