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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
Winston doesn't make sense for us for a couple of reasons:
1) primarily salary, we are not in a position to pay top 5 money to a RT right now.
2) although Polumbus was less than stellar, we succeeded in having a successful attack to all parts of the field.
3) at 30, while not old, he isn't "young" either, and this draft will have RT's to develop.
4) speaking of developing, we have brought in several OL, and MS is big on OL stability. Bringing in a high to overpaid star power player, regardless of his ability, doesn't add to the cohesive group mentality MS creates
5) personally, the whole we gotta get player x, is the leftover mentality from the bad days. If we bring him in at a reasonable deal, great, but that won't happen, because he isn't looking for a reasonable deal. He wants the dollars. No fault on him, just saying that we don't do business that way anymore.
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1) Yes, true, you hope he goes for the championship/good team and not for the money, again.
2) Polumbus, as I've mentioned before, didn't even rank in the top 35 RTs. Think about that one for a second. Winston, ranked 3rd and is a fit with this offense.
3) True
4) I wouldn't say we have stability at RT, at all. You're about 4/5ths correct. MS is not happy with the RT position. This is known throughout other insiders.
5) True, but every once in a while you come across a player that fits almost too pefectly or makes too much sense. Let me kind of flip this question on you. Would you want to draft a guy you have no idea how he'd hold up in the pros, or would you go with the guy who is known by the coaches (Kyle Shanahan) and is known to fit an immediate need and you know what he's going to do against other pros? Its not like we're asking a lineman from another scheme which none of our coaches have no experience with (example Ghosder Cherilus) to come here and ''see what happens''.
Eric Winston supposedly dominated Von Miller last year, and I don't need to get into how great a player Von is.