Quote:Baloney? Your example of Alualu and JPP is exactly sacrificing talent to fill a need.... Alualu was probably the best DT available, but focusing on 1 position makes you miss a player such as Ryan Mathews, Earl Thomas, Mike Iupati, Maurkice Pouncey, JPP, Jermaine Gresham, Demaryius Thomas, Dez Bryant, etc. When you focus on one position you tend to more often than not reach for a player at a certain spot, passing on better players.

 

Tyson Alualu was a terrible reach. You could hear the murmurs mixed with laughs around the draft gallery. The Sports Xchange said in their post draft analysis that the Jacksonville Jaguars' scouting department was probably the only one in the entire NFL that listed Alualu among the top ten players in the 2010 draft.

 

He's never lived up to first round expectations. He has been switched all over the place, but he still has not performed like a first rounder is expected to.

 

This fact is tolerated perhaps due to the fact that we all know Tyson had no choice about where he was taken in the draft and Gene Smith and his cronies operated the worst scouting department in the NFL.

 

Alualu was listed as a top forty player in 2010. Gene Smith took him at 10, or thirty picks too high. He was clearly not the best player available regardless of position.

 

So the Team Gene Regime gave up a twenty in pick value and got ten or eleven in pick value back in player-asset. That's a draft bust right out of the box.

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